charade
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The charade will help Stewart close a business deal and make him the favored Whitfield to take over the family’s real-estate empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
What we have now is a shallow affair and it’s not fair to you that the charade continue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Why force myself to go through with this charade again?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
They appear to know the victims of this charade aren’t criminals, but ordinary people just trying to live their lives.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2025
Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo’s crushing bereavement.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
In playing charades with our friends, for example, we aim to prevail, but only in fun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
"We divided attendees into groom and bride's teams and organised games like charades and guessing who the relative is from a stereotype," said CEO Anurag Pandey.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
He read out the rules for what was essentially an arena-scale game of charades between him and the audience, in which his number of wins determined which costume he donned for the next act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
The games and amusements that had passed the time for them on board Endurance were forgotten; no one had the heart for charades or poetry recitals or comic songs.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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