impostor
Example Sentences
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I stayed silent in that group for days, convinced someone would realize I was an impostor.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026
“That little flicker—it can plant itself in you and blossom into self-doubt, impostor syndrome,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
After a few more words of greeting, the impostor Melania flashed another smile as she exited.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing impostor
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 3
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