pinchbeck

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinchbeck
Adjective
  • This could certainly change if the Rockets land a certain French teenager in this year's draft lottery, but the first half of 2022-23 has assuaged some concerns about the long-term viability of a pseudo-twin-towers in the starting lineup with Jabari Smith flanked by Alperen Şengün.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
  • In a code division scheme, each call is encoded in a random or pseudo-random sequencing, and receivers at the other end are equipped to decode their own calls.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • When Devon essentially goes undercover as a Michaela disciple to keep an eye on Simone, Fahy gets to embody a friction between her character’s actual and feigned personalities that’s delightful to watch.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2025
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    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These flaws include counterfeit, defective and tampered components.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 4 June 2025
  • Two iconic murals were painted at the site, including a blue-and-yellow tribute on the side of the Cup Foods where Floyd was accused of spending a counterfeit $20 bill, prompting the fatal police response.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • First simply keeping Paul from her, lawyer Laurent then gets the courts involved, filing spurious allegations of the ugliest kind in a successful bid to get her custody suspended entirely.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2025
  • There are platforms that string together LLMs, spurious claims of agentic superiority, and GPT wrappers upon GPT wrappers that are slapped on existing solutions.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • If someone submits a fraudulent claim, instead of losing insurance, their personal trust score would be lowered, which would impact insurance costs.
    Robert Clark, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • That’s where hundreds of thousands of Wells Fargo employees opened millions of unauthorized or fraudulent accounts and other financial products, from 2002 to 2016, to meet excessive sales goals.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Use a bow rake, with forged metal tines, to grade and smooth the terrain.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Russia once floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland in a forged fundraising letter sent to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton nearly five years ago, according to Danish intelligence.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In early June, the Burleson Police Department was alerted to a scam at a store involving gift cards with phony barcodes.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • Over a 14-year period, the OCC estimated that hundreds of thousands of Wells Fargo employees did some type of phony sale, like issuing an unwanted debit card, the Observer had reported.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Payment providers can face significant card brand penalties if they are found to facilitate deceptive behavior.
    Rochelle Blease, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Don't fall prey to deceptive marketing language and inflated MSRP prices—our tips only take a few moments.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 12 June 2025
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“Pinchbeck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinchbeck. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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