coact

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Verb
  • However, for his role as legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow, Clooney picked up a bottle of hair dye to mimic the broadcaster’s look more accurately.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Building artificial skin with room to grow The researchers initially sought to create a skin imitation that could accurately mimic the three layers in human skin: the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Emmy-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser, the lead of game show drama The Luckiest Man in America, came close to life imitating art and being a contestant himself.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The company uses data and AI learning to simulate attacks that go beyond just imitating an individual’s voice – like most modern sophisticated phishing attacks, the technology uses details about someone’s family, background, personality and more.
    Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The bulletin issued by Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) on March 18 indicates that attacks started this month, with Signal messages containing links to archived messages, masquerading as meeting reports.
    Joanne Stocker, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But maybe the greatest sin of all of this is how, as social media has been flooded by pure slop masquerading as Ghibli work, one of the company’s greatest and most eternally relevant films has returned to theaters now, more beautiful and brilliant than ever.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • After Nixon was named a first-team All-Pro for his kick-return prowess in both 2022 and 2023, the NFL enacted a rule change that moved touchbacks from the 25-yard line to the 30 for the 2024 season.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But these efforts would be fruitless unless states enacted legislation exempting sports betting from their anti-gambling laws.
    Martin Edel, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The knockoff was a flimsy, unusable slab of rubber dotted with magnets; the companies aping Agarwal's idea are seemingly unable to replicate the manufacturing process that Agarwal has spent years perfecting to finally be able to widely ship Polygons today.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Nicholson's fireworks would be subsequently aped, and amped up to over-the-top proportions, by other actors and by the future Batman villain himself.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His days are spent either sitting sadly on Iris’ bed with literal hangdog eyes or acting out and destroying things in her apartment.
    Lindsey Bahr, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2025
  • But most small children eventually outgrow the impulse to act out.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Coact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coact. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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