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faker

[fay-ker] / ˈfeɪ kər /


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“Bob is a faker, and Bob knows he’s a faker,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024

She's either a caring person or a great faker.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022

Pearson saw in McCarthy a witch hunter who couldn’t snare a witch — precisely the sort of faker he’d spent his career exposing.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020

The former faker described the Met’s specialist art and antiques detectives as an “occupational hazard” when he was active.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017

And I guess now I don’t feel like a big faker for trying to put my life back together.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

Instead, it emboldened a new generation of fakers who saw the easy money he made off eager buyers and realized that others involved in the fraud weren’t held accountable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

It is easy for AI fakers living overseas to pose as British nationals online, he said, because it is relatively cheap to buy social media accounts originally set up in the UK.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

She said the point is to protect what they create, such as merchandise and a detailed log of what the eagles are up to, from fakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

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

Some even accused those men of being fakers and cowards.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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