The phrase "as counterfeiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing imitation, fraud, or the act of producing something that is not genuine.
Example: "The new regulations aim to address issues such as counterfeiting, which can harm both consumers and legitimate businesses."
Alternatives: "like forgery" or "similar to imitation".
Since the 1970s, the North Korean government has been accused of condoning, and even encouraging, its agencies to bring in badly needed hard currency through criminal activities, such as counterfeiting dollars and cigarettes, as well as selling weapons.
And there is a whole branch of the criminal underground dedicated to such erudite malfeasance as counterfeiting undiscovered Shakespeare plays and bogus endings to Byron's "Don Juan," thus creating a need for literary detectives like the shapely Ms. Next.
North Korea, with an unbroken record of lying and cheating on such deals, has carried on with its weapons programs, plus such stunts as counterfeiting U.S. currency, and sending sanctions-busting arms shipments to Iran.
Chekhov's supple artistry — at once invisible and palpably present — is so inextricably tied to his fearless yet humane worldview that copying his example would be as impossible as counterfeiting fingerprints.
As counterfeiting cases go, Mr. Kellogg's is not a record-breaker.
In its annual "Special 301" review, published earlier this month, the office of the US trade representative (USTR) fingered more than 30 countries as counterfeiting and piracy hotspots.
Without knowing the cross-street, no one would guess that this portentous address was actually as counterfeit as the Cartier watches and Vuitton handbags that Sudanese street peddlers sell to gullible tourists on Seventh Avenue.
And so it was: the show's marine biologists were actors, the footage of an aqua-beast taking down a boat was a sham, and "evidence" that a whale had lost a dust-up with a megalodon and had its tail bitten off was as counterfeit as a Romex watch.
"So far, it's worked as well or better as drugs, counterfeiting, smuggling – all their usual tricks," Lewis said.
Here, his concern is words that owe their shaky authority to the authors who, as if counterfeiting money, coined them and edged them into general circulation.
Hologram labels are generally regarded as counterfeit-proof.
