pose as
Example Sentences
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New Mexico authorities put together their case against the social media giant by having investigators pose as children on Instagram and Facebook.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
It was agreed a BBC colleague would pose as Kaye, a mother of two in her fifties from Selby.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
According to the National Fraud Helpline, fraudsters often pose as celebrities, or use fake celebrity endorsements, to steal from people.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
The jacket photo of “To Absent Friends,” which features Welty and Lyell in a theatrical pose, as if they were matinee idols, hints at the kind of personal theater in which they indulged as 20-somethings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Mark Fossie tried hard to keep up a self-assured pose, as if nothing had ever come between them, or ever could, but there was a fragility to it, something tentative and false.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
