spoof
Example Sentences
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Once inside the Gulf, Diakun said, vessels can "spoof" their transponders to hide their positions and even perform ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil, testing the terms of the US blockade.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Innes said we could not be sure whether all of the pages' thousands of followers were real people, adding page owners often used bots to "spoof the algorithm" and get content into people's feeds.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Instead, they went with tracks like “Superbird,” a spoof of President Lyndon B. Johnson, which received little to no backlash.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
Russia and other countries also spoof GPS, broadcasting fake signals to throw off receivers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
This reminded Jonah of a spoof he’d seen once in MAD magazine that was supposed to teach kids how to lie convincingly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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