pinchbeck

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Adjective
  • This could certainly change if the Rockets land a certain French teenager in this year's draft lottery, but the first half of 2022-23 has assuaged some concerns about the long-term viability of a pseudo-twin-towers in the starting lineup with Jabari Smith flanked by Alperen Şengün.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
  • In a code division scheme, each call is encoded in a random or pseudo-random sequencing, and receivers at the other end are equipped to decode their own calls.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • When Devon essentially goes undercover as a Michaela disciple to keep an eye on Simone, Fahy gets to embody a friction between her character’s actual and feigned personalities that’s delightful to watch.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2025
  • Related Articles John Stossel: America needs more immigrants, not fewer DEI at universities will continue despite feigned compliance with Trump policies Debra J. Saunders: DOGE or runaway debt?
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Parents, experts and lawmakers have urged tech giants to do more to prevent the sale of counterfeit or illicit drugs to young people through their platforms, after multiple teens have died of overdoses from pills bought online.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
  • According to a 2023 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of overdose deaths involving counterfeit pills more than doubled between mid-2019 and late 2021, with states in the Western US being even more acutely impacted.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • There are platforms that string together LLMs, spurious claims of agentic superiority, and GPT wrappers upon GPT wrappers that are slapped on existing solutions.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Trade and the Economy To make the case for his tariff policy, Mr. Trump has turned to a stream of misleading statistics and spurious claims about trade history.
    Jamie Leventhal, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • On May 30, 2025, a Pennsylvania federal court refused NFL player agent Todd France’s request to vacate a December 2023 arbitration decision which ordered France to pay over $800,000 in damages to rival agent Jason Bernstein and which excoriated France for fraudulent conduct.
    Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • The couple were convicted of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans as well as tax evasion and sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • China also makes more large cast and forged products—including landing gear, engine components, brakes, turbine disks, and fan blades—than the next nine countries combined.
    MICHAEL BROWN, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • It is crafted from forged zinc and finished in matte black.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Additionally, several quotations attributed to the cited judicial opinions were phony and did not accurately represent those materials.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
  • No motorists received any phony tickets, but troopers were scrutinized for inflating the number of tickets to show supervisors of their productivity in an attempt to receive promotions, overtime, and an unmarked Dodge Charger – a better police car with a powerful engine that can reach high speeds.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • During the defense’s cross-examination of Kid Cudi, lawyers representing Combs portrayed Ventura as deceptive of both men.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, filed a suit against ExxonMobil last year that, in part, accuses the oil giant of deceptive claims regarding chemical recycling, which the company disputes.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
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“Pinchbeck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinchbeck. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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