charade
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But ProPublica found that those claims were a charade: Lifesaving programs remained on the books, but the flow of money didn’t restart for months, if at all.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Why force myself to go through with this charade again?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
“Jain’s and Cohen’s months-long charade was deliberate, coordinated, and unlawful,” Palantir said in the lawsuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The decision on how to proceed now rests with Macron, who must surely be asking himself how long this political charade can be allowed to go on.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
Luckily, she had lost her voice, and she could only smile and shrug and wave her arms gracefully, like fronds, as the children tried to guess what sort of charade she was enacting.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
Writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh had the honors Sunday, and she gamely followed the script’s instructions as though presiding over an evening of charades that an oracle had dreamed up in advance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
Then we played a bunch of cheesy party games like charades and Monopoly.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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