masquerade as

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College Football Brain is why we still have Zombie Bowl games layered on top of this 12-team playoff, as if anyone actually cares or comprehends why the quarterfinal needs to masquerade as the Cotton Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

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

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

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

“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