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fake

verb as in pretend

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With misinformation and disinformation about the pandemic, “cheap” and “deep” fakes of elected officials, and targeted ads and emotionally exploitative social media algorithms, it can begin to feel like all communication is manipulation.

The state’s watchdog, however, argued that the company could falsely spread its rates over a fake population, giving the illusion that customers were getting a cost cut.

She has coiffed hair and long fake eyelashes, but still puts in the same work everybody else does, taking orders and doing deliveries.

You see how good we’re doing relative to other countries and other parts of the world, but the fake news doesn’t like saying that, they don’t like telling you that.

From Vox

However, the new “fake news” bill would bypass the framework, allowing legislators to create a mechanism that could be used to restrict that freedom for millions of Brazilians.

Just how many fake nodes would be needed in order to pull off a successful Sybil attack against Tor is not known.

He cast her as Hope, an ex-addict with an impressive pair of fake chompers—the result of years of drug abuse.

There are many of us who need to talk and be reached out to, even if we use fake Facebook accounts for our safety.

A call made to police beforehand described Rice as “a guy with a pistol” on a swing set, but said it was “probably fake.”

Crooks can use it to apply for credit, file fake claims with insurers, or buy drugs and medical equipment that can be resold.

And then all motion in that portion of the great fake would suddenly cease.

Within six months, if you're not sandbagged or jailed on fake libel suits, you'll have a unique bibliography of swindles.

"I'll bet he's got some kind of a fake story to tell," suggested Will.

It might just as well have been any other patent medicine, or any fake cure.

If you happen to drift into the fake places, nothing more serious would happen than getting stuck good and hard.

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On this page you'll find 232 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fake, such as: bogus, counterfeit, fabricated, fictitious, forged, and fraudulent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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