pretense
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Their analysis was anticipated by that of Frederick Hayek in The Pretense of Knowledge, his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
From Forbes • May 30, 2014
"Pretense is something chefs on his level struggle with," says Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet magazine.
From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 15, 2011
Cassaleria is another star-crossed son of Pretense, the father of poor Sham, who would have won any other Kentucky Derby and most other Preaknesses but finished second to Secretariat on both occasions in 1973.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pretense: this is the way an imaginary paper,the Jerusalem Dally News, might have told the story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Avoid False Pretense of Interest Do not, of course, put on false pretenses, to make your prospect like you and your ideas.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
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