masquerader

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Noun
  • In January 2024, nation-state actor Midnight Blizzard exploited Microsoft misconfigurations in password spray attacks that successfully compromised an account without multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.
    Galit Lubetzky, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Grammy Award-winning rapper and actor Ludacris will kick off the fair on opening day, Friday, July 11, with a performance on the main stage.
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It must be said, however, that the performance sensibility is somewhere between English pantomime and a Nickelodeon sitcom.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
  • This may seem like a distant toxic pantomime confined to Washington.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After the release of Elden Ring, a famously difficult bestseller, Musk posted a screenshot of his character, but his build instantly exposed him as a poser.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This poser is hard to work through when we are only given the text.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But for every masker getting their flowers, dozens more remain in the shadows, their artistry largely unrecognized beyond their community.
    Harriet Shepherd, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The anti-masker throws a punch and winds up with the other woman’s tooth in her fist.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The message, transmitted close to the audience as dancers Jessica Fiala and Tamara Nadel mime a slow-motion, rolling of dice, is crystal clear: There are consequences to gambling with karma.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This, plus pitch-perfect line readings and a simple mime of holding a steering wheel, are all Larson needs to drop the audience right there in the car with him.
    John Roy, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This same episode, someone (Langston Kerman?) donned a full ape suit to play Bubbles the Chimp.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Among Rambaldi’s many other film credits are the 40-foot mechanical ape in the 1976 version of King Kong, which introduced him to the American market.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In last night’s cold open, the SNL cast member James Austin Johnson, the show’s resident Donald Trump impressionist, responded to the dig.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
  • While Steve Martin didn’t change his mind about not being an impressionist, Gaffigan embraces his Kirkland attire, setting the stage for some more friends to kick off the season.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The hat will be put to good use this weekend when Hager pays tribute to Red Skelton, the late pantomimist and radio and television comedian.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Image Reo King Sanshiro, a pantomimist, was standing outside a Chinese restaurant on a busy street in Kumamoto City.
    New York Times, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2017
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“Masquerader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masquerader. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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