Authentic
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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To train the nude dancers in the proper moves, the Saloon hired an authentic British drill instructor, who went all Drill Sergeant Nasty on the girls during the repetitions.
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To make it look authentic, the director even went as far as shooting the film digitally, transferring it into VHS and copying it to other tapes five times, in order to achieve the proper degradation that a 1987 recording would suffer.
Source: Retraux -
More of a case of Holy Is Not Safe than a bringer of disaster, at least within authentic Judeo-Christian texts: anyone who touched the Ark without the proper ceremonies being observed would be instantly struck dead.
Source: Artifact of Doom
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Proper and Authentic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/authentic/proper
Authentic & Proper. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/authentic/proper>.
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