Borrow
Borrow verb - To take for one's own use (something originated by another).
Fake
Fake verb - To imitate or copy especially in order to deceive.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- When her publisher invites himself and a war veteran over for Christmas, Stanwyck's character has to borrow someone else's farm and a different someone else's baby and fake a domestic paradise.
Source: Maintain the Lie - Vimes remarked that he wanted to tell Doreen that she can use Ws, honestly - just borrow them from the guy who overemphasis his Ws (a real vampire trying too hard not to look like one), and added that her fake fangs rattle when she talks.
Source: Vampire Vords
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