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The Pentagon told the BBC it had followed the law and that Hegseth would not be deterred by "phony investigations".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

You’re challenging the listener to accept that over the top doesn’t necessarily mean phony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Major job-search platforms say they are focused on what’s phony and sowing mistrust.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Americans are awash in scams: phony UPS texts, AI-generated voices of loved ones in trouble, spoofed emails tricking city governments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

In one way, he found making the phony tapes tedious; in another, he liked the simple sensation of it — pushing the tabs, feeling them latch.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

It was always baloney, and Meta has just exposed all the people who made that argument as phonies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

With no up-front costs for attempting to enroll, phonies threw thousands of identities at the system’s 116 schools, which were technologically unprepared for the assaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

Soft know-it-alls from the city and phonies of any stripe receive rough treatment in his shows, such as the llama farmer from California who gets thrown under a Montana cattle guard in “Yellowstone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Mr. Musk trashed Mr. Zuckerberg’s Instagram as a dwelling for fakers and phonies in a Wednesday evening post to Twitter.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

He was a man trying to create greatness, and the phonies were too ignorant to recognize anything beyond their own limitations.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Angelenos can spot a phony from far away — and Spencer, you’re turning out to be phonier than the fake drama on any of the television shows you ever appeared in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Arthur Julian, a writer on “F Troop,” noted that “real audiences sound phonier than the laugh track. Sometimes they freeze up and act unnatural.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

But the screenplay, by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke, can’t stand that level of scrutiny, and the closer we get to the actors mouthing their clunky, mock-allegorical dialogue, the phonier they seem.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2019

Is an imitation Kardashian any phonier than the real?

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2011

The phonier it got, the more she cried.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Baseball strikes, lockouts, labor actions — whatever you want to call them — are the phoniest things in sports next to soccer injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

When it came to decorating his own new home, he threw out all the rules of good taste and embraced the phoniest of fakes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2014

What would be the phoniest thing of all would be for me to all of the sudden not be his friend.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2011

NEWPORT, Wales -- So it was, inevitably and predictably, the phoniest of conflicts.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 30, 2010

It was the phoniest conversation you ever heard in your life.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

She was indicted for inducing her client, convicted Kidnaper John William Irwin, to testify falsely in an effort to prove that Sinatra phonied up the kidnaping as a publicity stunt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every time I go anywhere now it's all phonied up.

From Time Magazine Archive