Thesaurus results for PHONYING

phonying

verb

present participle of phony

as in forging

to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive the terrorists were able to move around the country using phonied driver's licenses

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Contributor Steven Vargas reported on how surviving dance companies and artists are forging ahead in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and diminished funding.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
This partnership underscores a broader trend of private aviation firms forging alliances with major sports.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of forging

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Several arrests were related to counterfeiting and selling knock-off Knicks apparel, an NYPD source said.

— Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
There have been a lot of studies on counterfeiting conducted with customs and police, but these have mostly focused on the scale of the problem.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026

Definition of counterfeiting

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Huskins Quinn’s case gained national attention after Vallejo police wrongly accused her of faking her disappearance.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
And there’s no evidence, no evidence, zero evidence in this country, that there is a problem at scale with people faking their identification in elections.

— NBC news, NBC news, 28 June 2026

Definition of faking

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This has become increasingly difficult, with professional players routinely simulating injuries and an offside rule that is interpreted to within fractions of an inch.

— Eric Zillmer, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those interactions.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026

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