masquerade as
Example Sentences
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People knew Sceptobius was able to masquerade as an ant, but they didn’t know how it pulled it off.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
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
They masquerade as a much less desirable prey -- ants -- and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record of an ant-mimicking spider in fossilized resin.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
Some caterpillars masquerade as dead leaves, twigs, snakes, even bird droppings, to avoid being eaten.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
