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Noun
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The gloomiest of the adverse reactions is that charlatans will insidiously attempt to convince others that AGI is indeed supernatural.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025 -
Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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Among those reports, according to the FTC, Customs and Board Protection impostors ranked as the fourth most common with 3,466 reports in the first four months of 2025.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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And, of course, there was the impostor Case Keenum, a miscast backup, and the high-maintenance Russell Wilson, who hit the right notes off the field, especially in visits to hospitals, but never found his fit in coach Sean Payton’s offense or the locker room.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
26 July 2025
Noun
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Democrats wasted little time calling out Trump as a hypocrite on immigration.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2025
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Is Lucy, superbly played by Dakota Johnson, a hypocrite?—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 June 2025
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“Deceiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceiver. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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