masquerading
- present participle of masquerade.
Example Sentences
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“Employees often feel safer owning the company they know, but that can be familiarity bias masquerading as investment analysis,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
I keep coming back to psychoanalyst Karen Horney’s 1950 discussion of neurosis and the professions—how they can attract exactly the wrong people, masquerading ideals they don’t possess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
To start, they’ve been masquerading as a vegetable when they are actually classified as botanical fruits.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
Justina, 45, from Cardiff, opened her restaurant about a year ago and said she had noticed an "overwhelming presence of chain restaurants, sometimes masquerading as independents" on delivery apps.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
“He is lunatic, or his answers are questions who is only masquerading as answers, or he is silent. Silent because you can know or you can say, but both, no. My glass is empty.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
