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counterfeit

[kaun-ter-fit] / ˈkaʊn tərˌfɪt /






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While Poland remains Europe's leading country for counterfeit cigarette production, Belgium has become a key base for traffickers looking to offload their low-cost products in markets such as Britain and France.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Doctors are becoming increasingly worried about the side effects they are seeing amongst users of these counterfeit weight-loss drugs.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it uncovered a bulk shipment of counterfeit Adidas, Nike and other branded streetwear at a port of entry in early August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Trading-card grading volume is growing year over year, hitting a record high this April, and so is counterfeit activity.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

Barnum's "mermaid" is a total fake, a counterfeit fossil pasted together from bones, withered skins, and who knows what else.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

As Murano island’s glass factories face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of skilled apprentices and competition from counterfeits, the Seguso brand remains one of the last practitioners of the art form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The experts reassured me that preinstalled malware is rare, but there are other, more common dangers: activation-locked devices, shoddy replacement parts, outdated models—or even counterfeits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Such proximity to China has proven favourable for Vietnam's booming counterfeits industry.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The judge accepted that Crowley had inherited the statues from his grandfather and did not at any point believe that they were counterfeits.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Imagination, conjuring up a picture of a Turpin or a Claude du Vall riding away with a pocketful of guineas which, on arriving home, he discovers to be counterfeits, provokes a smile.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

The Chinese company, DTN Airbag, has said it doesn’t do business with customers in the U.S. and that it believes the company’s parts have been counterfeited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The 48-year-old author even took to Instagram this week to warn her fans that counterfeited copies, external of The Polygamist were being sold in a bookshop in Nairobi.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The victim’s sister remembers how skillfully Martinez counterfeited compassion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

But Leas sees these documents as mostly marketing, and these reports can be counterfeited.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

We cannot ignore the possibility that the work may have been done by someone else, or that someone counterfeited the mark into the stone much later.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

The Bank the move was primarily to stop counterfeiting so all images need to be replaced on banknotes over time.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“It looks like the company’s seemingly blatant attempts at counterfeiting patented weight-loss drugs via compounding finally went too far,” said On the Street Substack author Herb Greenberg.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026

The tech also assigns a counterfeiting risk score based on the company’s years of collecting information on real and fake items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Both men were charged with "counterfeiting medicines or medical products", and the 26-year-old also faces money-laundering charges.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

Secret Service, which was already responsible for defending the government against fraud and counterfeiting.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow


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