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They claim that criminals will counterfeit the rice, using yellow spices or naturally yellow grains, so people will think they’re getting vitamin A when they aren’t.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015

Where the course of events is rapid, their quick succession itself will counterfeit a like phase of life, for an observer would note the events as such rather than the setting.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

"If I will counterfeit her," she said, feverishly; "I will disguise myself."

From The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story by Paine, Albert Bigelow