personates

verb

present tense third-person singular of personate
as in mocks
to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for personates
  1. mocks
  2. plays
  3. impersonates
  4. imitates
  5. portrays
  6. acts
Verb
  • Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is designed as an action flick as well as a portrait of a family dealing with tragedy and an insider’s look at an insular community that mocks harmful stereotypes without perpetrating them.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
  • And finally, another one of Wang’s creations mocks Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine’s infamously cringe sexts by showing the pop star losing his mind to a picture of Jolly’s derriere in an Instagram DM.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of mocks
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  • Beyond serving as an incentive and accountability mechanism in the human academic research ecosystem, there are commercial incentives for discovery, and credit plays a different role in that setting.
    — Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Park Hae-il plays the head of a newspaper’s social affairs desk, and Lee Min-ho a rookie reporter.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of plays
Verb
  • When his detective twin brother, James, disappears, Ludwig impersonates him to help his sister-in-law, Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin), solve the mystery.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Security researchers at Jamf Threat Labs have uncovered CrashStealer, a new Mac information stealer that impersonates Apple's crash-reporting software.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of impersonates
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  • Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Over the weekend, movie-theater chain AMC Entertainment accused Robinhood of creating an unauthorized market that imitates trading in AMC shares through its overseas platform without the company’s approval.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of imitates
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  • The column portrays Cunningham as an outspoken agitator whose growing profile has become a distraction for the Fever.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Also on hand were director Jonathan Levine and cast members Corenswet, Isabel May, who plays Tuggle’s wife, Katie; David Krumholtz, who plays Tuggle’s driver, Whitey; and Michael Shannon, who portrays legendary Giants coach Bill Parcells.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of portrays
Verb
  • Paul Heaney’s company itself acts as the central commissioner, putting projects into production and then sells the rights to buyers who have already stated their interest.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In 1961, however, studies in animals revealed that clozapine acts primarily as a sedative and exerts its effects without inducing muscle rigidity, as previous antipsychotics had.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of acts
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“Personates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personates. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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