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- verb Present participle of
impersonate .
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Examples
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Tina Fey is really good in impersonating Sarah Palin.
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US vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin fell prey to a Canadian prankster when he called her impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy and got her to accept an invitation to hunt baby seals.
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US vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin fell prey to a Canadian prankster yesterday when he called her impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy and got her to accept an invitation to hunt baby seals.
timesofmalta.com 2008
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Mr. Doyle, who made his name by impersonating the dialect of young, working-class Dubliners in his novels, here gives us the voices of Dublin men in their 40s whose bodies are rudely alerting them to their mortality.
Stories of Midlife Crises And Motherhood Dilemmas Sam Sacks 2011
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Finally a well-known elocutionist, named Burbank, conceived the notion of impersonating Raymond as well as Sellers, making of it a sort of double burlesque, and agreed to take the play on those terms.
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Finally a well-known elocutionist, named Burbank, conceived the notion of impersonating Raymond as well as Sellers, making of it a sort of double burlesque, and agreed to take the play on those terms.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Finally a well-known elocutionist, named Burbank, conceived the notion of impersonating Raymond as well as Sellers, making of it a sort of double burlesque, and agreed to take the play on those terms.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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He had conceived the idea of impersonating the original Henley, the man for whom the letter had been written.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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He had conceived the idea of impersonating the original Henley, the man for whom the letter had been written.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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He had conceived the idea of impersonating the original Henley, the man for whom the letter had been written.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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