pose (as)

verb

Definition of pose (as)next
as in to masquerade (as)
to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior posing as a soldier, the spy sneaked onto the base with surprising ease

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pose (as)
  1. play
  2. mock
  3. imitate
Verb
  • And my understanding is the passport would be a requisite to play in 4 Nations.
    Pierre LeBrun, The Athletic, 3 Dec. 2024
  • As the Wild Card, the Bucks would play a road game against a group winner— the Pistons, Hawks, or the winner of the Knicks-Magic game.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of play
Verb
  • Meanwhile, some critics on social media mocked her even further for boasting about shooting 39%.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Senior Biden aide mocks Trump team for 'taking credit' for ceasefire President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has mocked Donald Trump's incoming administration for trying to take credit for the Israel ceasefire with Lebanon.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of mock
Verb
  • One document included a business deck orchestrated by a group of political operatives called the American Patriots Project (APP) to imitate No Labels' website with the purchase of the NoLabels.com domain as well as Google search ads.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Do not imitate Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh who discerned something negative about everything.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of imitate
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