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posed (as)

verb

past tense of pose (as)

as in played

to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior posing as a soldier, the spy sneaked onto the base with surprising ease

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Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
She has been featured in various TV shows, including an English show called Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), and played Desdemona in Broadway’s Othello before retiring in the early 1980s, per the Walt Disney Archives.

— Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026

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Critics have portrayed the idea as anti-religious and ahistorical ever since the Supreme Court embraced it in 1947.

— Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Only in these United States can the progeny of people once portrayed as parasites and invaders side with those making the same argument about the latest batch of newcomers.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

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