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- noun Plural form of
fakery .
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Examples
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For years, he points out, his state has been increasing benefits for public pensions while reducing contributions and resorting to various fakeries to paper over the resulting unfunded liabilities.
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This is just another of those fakeries writing teachers -- or writers forced to sit on panels and not having the intellectual honesty to talk about the tough work of writing rather than writing as the festival or conference-goer wishes it -- pull out of the hat when they have nothing else to talk about.
Anis Shivani: Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth 2010
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As a Moth storyteller, all your flaws and fakeries, awkwardness or slickness, are instantly visible on stage.
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He's all about margarine and splenda and other fakeries.
May 14th, 2009 yuki_onna 2009
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Though some photo fakeries are very had to detect, we do have a check system – Google Earth.
How IPCC AR4 authors defended the Briffa data deletions « Climate Audit 2007
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But the effects of particular fakeries are relative.
Reuters’ Altered Photos: Overhyped? Dangerous? Both - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006
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Unless you are talking about fraud, sectarianism, clerical interventions, daily political oscillations, and fakeries.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 As'ad 2005
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Forging Ethnic Food - The first in a series of culinary fakeries A day at the market and an election controversy
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However, a visit to the popular BBS site Head-Fi brought alarmed me to no end as there's a very long thread about, er, nearly indistinguishable Sennheiser IE8 fakeries being sold on auction sites.
International Political Economy Zone Emmanuel 2010
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All the same, selling such fakeries at prices approaching even a quarter that of the original would net the counterfeiters a tidy profit.
International Political Economy Zone Emmanuel 2010
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