masquerade as
Example Sentences
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As historian David Garrow documents, King believed that violence collapsed the moral clarity the movement depended on, allowing repression to masquerade as order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The story and the website it originally appeared on share striking similarities with a network of fake news websites that masquerade as US local news outlets, which BBC Verify has previously extensively reported on.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024
The codes direct unsuspecting users to fraudulent websites that often attempt to masquerade as sites affiliated with government agencies or banks, according to the USPIS.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2024
"Through collisions and mergers, these stars collect more hydrogen. Although they were formed from an older population, they masquerade as rejuvenated, young-looking stars. They are like zombie stars; they eat their neighbors."
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
“So behave yourselves and pretend you’re the good, proper citizens you masquerade as when you out and about on the boulevard, okay?”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
