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
He tells the BBC that scammers are behind many of these lock-outs and one of their preferred methods of fooling people is to masquerade as customer support agents.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025
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
Her marriage to Léonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
