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"You cannot just pretend the technical concerns that are true are the same thing as the fearmongering," he said, adding that he was not arguing American companies should control everything.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

“We cannot pretend to be something that we are not. We have to develop our own language, our own way of filming, our way of telling our stories.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Day, Tyler, James and Fisher pretend nothing matters until an inexplicable cosmic force throws them into a situation where that becomes a reality.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Consumers will benefit from an end to so-called subscription traps and a crackdown on "pretend prices", Andy Burnham has said.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

And later I kind of wondered, maybe some of those people had seen weird things like that before and had decided to pretend that they didn’t exist.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

What’s disheartening is that she pretends there is no connection, telling Vogue Italia last week, “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks to me, and that is the opposite of making art.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

"He is not happy, he pretends he is happy," said Tamim.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country's biggest unions, verbally attacked Mullin at a 2023 hearing, calling him a "greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

He is not the muscular president he pretends to be on television.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026

At the party, Joey pretends to be in awe of everything she sees.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Rand pretended to be me and I pretended to be Rand,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Hine often donned disguises or pretended to be inspecting a factory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Toy Story” and its four sequels encouraged imagination and playfulness by giving toys the same kinds of personalities that children pretended the toys already had, sending them on adventures big and small.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Many pretended it wasn't happening at all, but that's harder to do as the front line creeps closer to the city.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

It was the sort of thing she'd seen in one of the Marvellian vintage catalogs Mama pretended not to order from—Victoria Valerino’s Vintage Vanguard.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

The players are really invested in pretending that that is not the case.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

“I had basically been cosplaying as an angel in their house for the last three or four months, pretending that I was perfect,” Tiedemann says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

My arms are extended at my sides and I’m leaning forward slightly — not unlike a 3-year-old pretending to be an airplane readying for takeoff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Lord Cameron also exchanged some text messages with the impersonator pretending to be Poroshenko, who was president of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

I thought now that she was bored and might just be pretending to listen.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott