- present participle of masquerade.
masquerading
Example Sentences
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“Employees often feel safer owning the company they know, but that can be familiarity bias masquerading as investment analysis,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Granola that’s either stale — thin-sliced cardstock masquerading as crunch — or so aggressively hard it feels like a dare to your dental work.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Their stories were safe and strategic— humblebrags masquerading as embarrassment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Independent restaurants have accused global corporations of being "sneaky" and "a killer" to family businesses by masquerading as indies on delivery apps.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
Confronted with the new fact—that his company was effectively long $50 billion in triple-B subprime mortgage bonds, masquerading as triple-A-rated diversified pools of consumer loans—Cassano at first sought to rationalize it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
