masquerade as
Example Sentences
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As historian David Garrow documents, King believed that violence collapsed the moral clarity the movement depended on, allowing repression to masquerade as order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
He tells the BBC that scammers are behind many of these lock-outs and one of their preferred methods of fooling people is to masquerade as customer support agents.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025
The codes direct unsuspecting users to fraudulent websites that often attempt to masquerade as sites affiliated with government agencies or banks, according to the USPIS.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2024
They masquerade as a much less desirable prey -- ants -- and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record of an ant-mimicking spider in fossilized resin.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
Dinky was trying to masquerade as this patriarch that he wasn’t.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
