pretender

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Dave Grohl and co came out at tea time on Friday and delivered one of the weekend's most pulverising rock sets: Everlong, The Pretender, Best Of You, All My Life.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2023

Hynde writes about the attack in her new memoir, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender."

From US News • Sep. 4, 2015

For his curious "Pretender," the artist harnessed Parton's cover of "The Great Pretender" to create a wobbly version in which her voice drunkenly moves down to male tenor and bass.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2014

“Say a prayer for the Pretender Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender” — Michael Keating 3.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2010

The cathedral contains a memorial tablet to Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, whose body for some while rested here; his brother, Henry, Cardinal York, owned a villa at Frascati.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various