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a person who dresses or behaves in a deceptive way that is meant to impress other people
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Recent Examples of poseurs
The nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.
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Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
Nobody made videos in those primitive days, nobody except weird Brit poseurs and art freaks and thirsty postpunk eccentrics, so the network was forced to play them all.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
16 Nov. 2025
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
Nobody made videos in those primitive days, nobody except weird Brit poseurs and art freaks and thirsty postpunk eccentrics, so the network was forced to play them all.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
16 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseurs
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Others estimate that $500 billion in federal spending is diverted by charlatans each year.
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The 21st century’s obstacles for young men—as seen in deaths of despair and lagging employment—have been amply publicized both by credible journalists and by charlatans such as Fuentes.
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Now, hardship seems to be an end in itself, a battle scar or badge of honor that distinguishes true backpackers from mere pretenders.
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This is where hype turns into hard numbers, and contenders start getting separated from pretenders.
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Apollo’s early-2010s bet on its insurer Athene spawned a decade of copycats, and over the past few years most big alternative asset managers have either bought a life-insurance company or launched dedicated businesses to manage their money.
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The film spawned a host of copycats, but that's not surprising given its incredible success, including an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.
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But the arrival of Buc-ee's supercharged the trend and spawned imitators like Wally's, which has three 50,000-square-foot locations in the Midwest, with plans for more.
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The frontier labs keep shipping the next capability while the imitators are still training on the last one, and the value keeps accruing to whoever is ahead rather than to whoever copied the leader's previous answers.
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This stops deepfakes and imposters.
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When news of Israel’s secret outposts in Iraq’s desert emerged, Iraqis admonished their leaders as traitors, and the boisterous militiamen affiliated with the government as impostors for allowing their land to be colonized by an enemy.
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
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At Dodger Stadium at the end of April, Crow-Amstrong also had to deal with the consequences of his actions — ripping Los Angeles Dodgers fans for being phonies in a Chicago magazine article that went viral.
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“Poseurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseurs. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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