as in synthetic
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
even the celebrity interior designer was fooled by the faux marble
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Recent Examples of faux
Bertrand wore an oversize faux fur coat and a green gradient suit jacket from KidSuper.
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Mikelle Street, WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
The Koolaburra Ugg Milos resemble other Ugg slippers on our list with the soft suede upper and faux fur lining.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 13 Feb. 2025
As their faux relationship evolves, real feelings begin to develop.
—Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
Plus, the soft, lightweight sweater is versatile enough to pair with everything, including a faux leather skirt and jeans.
—Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2025
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Mikelle Street, WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
The Koolaburra Ugg Milos resemble other Ugg slippers on our list with the soft suede upper and faux fur lining.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 13 Feb. 2025
As their faux relationship evolves, real feelings begin to develop.
—Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
Plus, the soft, lightweight sweater is versatile enough to pair with everything, including a faux leather skirt and jeans.
—Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faux
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The sculpted bamboo details are actually rust-resistant aluminum, while the tabletop, seats, and seatbacks are upholstered in a synthetic, rattan-like weave that’s more durable than natural caning.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Mar. 2025
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The products allegedly use synthetic ingredients such as parabens and sulfates.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
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Call scams have been making headlines recently, fueled by the rise in AI threats and urgent but fake banking and technical support calls that push users to install software or transfer money.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The reports that have gone viral on social media are fake news.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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As a result, the company spent most of last year working on simulated reasoning models like o1 and o3, which use a different inference-time (runtime) approach to improving performance instead of throwing ever-larger amounts of training data at GPT-style AI models.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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Do what would be impossible in reality – explore 3D structures, perform simulated surgeries, or conduct physics experiments in zero gravity.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The space station’s microbiome represents an artificial extreme.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
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But stuck in the middle tier are 150 countries that must endure artificial limits on computing supply chains that are kept at least a generation behind US technology accessible by the top tier.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
27 Feb. 2025
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The company will attempt another Super Heavy chopsticks catch, and Ship will attempt to deploy four dummy Starlink satellites on a suborbital trajectory.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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There's still two years left on that 2020 deal, but, during a 2023 restructure, the Browns also added void years to Garrett's deal, which tacked on dummy contract years to spread out the cap hits even further.—
Jacob Robinson,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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In those documents, West discussed not only how to conduct experiments to implant false memories, instill specific mental disorders, and induce trance states, but also how to hide them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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To illustrate, in the United Kingdom vaccinations took a considerable dip in the early 2000s after Wakefield’ false claims of a link between the MMR shot and autism were posted in the media.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Athletic's college football reporters conducted a mock draft, which had the Titans taking Miami quarterback Cam Ward.—
Nate Rau,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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There already have been a deluge of mock drafts and prospect rankings.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Faux.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faux. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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