feinting

verb

present participle of feint
as in bluffing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feinting
  1. bluffing
  2. feigning
  3. concealing
  4. disguising
  5. masking
  6. simulating
Verb
  • This, the team says, leads machines to make moves a human would only do while bluffing—and follow up on them much better than humans.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As for the threats to pull up stakes, most people in 1934 thought Hollywood was bluffing.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of bluffing
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  • The lawsuit, organized by the attorneys general of 29 US states, alleged that Meta executives like Mark Zuckerberg created a system that abused data collected from minors, while feigning ignorance about the harms their platforms caused.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Patterson was accused of pretending to eat the same portion, and of feigning illness in an elaborate ruse to suggest she’d also been poisoned.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of feigning
Verb
  • The gloom was useful for masking scavenging activities and for concealing one’s identity.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Meier serves drinks to the enemy, while concealing his Jewish identity.
    — Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of concealing
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  • Seattle accomplishes this by masterfully disguising defensive assignments before the snap, which can force Mahomes to diagnose where to go with the football only after dropping back.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • These scams convince people to execute malicious commands themselves, often by disguising the instructions as a software installation or troubleshooting step.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of disguising
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  • The gloom was useful for masking scavenging activities and for concealing one’s identity.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Traditional methods of dealing with bad odors involve masking them with air fresheners or trapping odor-causing molecules in filters.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of masking
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  • Researchers estimated in 2017 that simulating the ground-state energy of FeMoco, an iron-sulfur cluster involved in biological nitrogen fixation, would require roughly 50 trillion Toffoli gates.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Simulating an investment banker’s work is fundamentally different from simulating a software engineer’s work, CEO Jerry Wu tells Fortune.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of simulating
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