pinchbeck

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Adjective
  • Many of the individual works are stellar, but the theme is so baggy as to be meaningless, and the wall labels have a rote, pseudo-academic quality.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • If the tree happened to be on ancestral indigenous land, someone invented racist, pseudo-indigenous fictions to lend the tree an aura of romance.
    Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.
    Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
  • You are supposed to participate in a pantomime of feigned shock and delayed recognition.
    Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The 20 counterfeit products CNBC tested for its investigation.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The people who chased and shot at former Denver Broncos player Josh Reynolds and his two friends last year mistook the trio for people who’d used counterfeit money to purchase $250,000 worth of cocaine in an earlier drug deal, according to court records.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The most negative and spurious viral videos are the ones that are leading to the most views for advertisers.
    John Brandon, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • While all these claims were eventually discredited, Setlow said many other spurious findings have been published in respected scientific journals.
    F.D. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • An investigation revealed the suspect was driving without a license and had affixed a fraudulent registration tab to the rear license plate.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The fraudulent sellers uncovered by CNBC took credentials from a wide range of companies.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has initiated a flurry of defamation lawsuits against media companies, accusing them of false or misleading coverage.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Hinton challenged the optimistic visions promoted by Silicon Valley leaders, suggesting that much of the upbeat narrative about AI’s societal benefits is, at best, misleading.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • On the other hand, the forged carbon edition on a rubber strap will set you back at EUR 449 / INR 39,995 (not available in the U.S.).
    Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • He’s charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That has to change fast, or the push for a phony vision of socialism — already dominant in the schools — will soon dominate at the ballot box as well.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Transformers and GANs can produce identical sets of phony PII (name, SSN, DOB and digital activity) that appear completely authentic.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Pinchbeck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinchbeck. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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