Thesaurus results for POSE (AS)

pose (as)

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Definition of pose (as)

as in to masquerade (as)

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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He was handed a wild card to play doubles at Wimbledon this year but lost in the first round.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
My model is concentrated on the last 24 rounds played, and includes driving distance, strokes gained off the tee, strokes gained around the green, strokes gained putting, and strokes gained on par 3s longer than 200 yards.

— Dennis Esser, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of play

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These included Mao Zedong of China and Kim Il Sung of North Korea, as well as one mocking Ho Chi Minh, the father of Vietnam’s communist revolution.

— Sopheng Cheang, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
On Douban, a popular Chinese movie-review platform, viewers piled on with mocking and bewildered comments.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of mock

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Under Kirby Smart, Georgia’s defense remains the modern prototype most of college football aims to imitate.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026
For an industry watching this unfold, the lesson is not that scarcity marketing is a clever new tactic worth imitating everywhere.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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