pass for

1. Be accepted as or believed to be, usually something that is not so. For example, Jean is 23 but could pass for a teenager, or They thought that copy would pass for an original. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

The decision to revoke Wilde's pass for the library - then the British Museum reading room - was recorded without comment in the trustees' minutes for 15 June 1895.

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Southwest showed me a boarding pass for a passenger seated in 12C.

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They described James as a germaphobe and “nerdy,” a man who could pass for an engineer or computer programmer more easily than an industrial magnate.

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With his full head of neatly combed silver hair, he could easily pass for the father of many of his peers, in a job where the average age is 20 years younger.

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But Dickinson’s first feature is so assured in every other regard that you can give him a pass for these interludes.

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