pretend
Example Sentences
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“I had to remind myself: These people are pretending,” she said of a movie she’d seen recently.
They were what “so many Germans pretended to have been after the war: unpolitisch, ‘apolitical.’”
"I used to pretend to be Michael in the World Cup in 1998, and then I was in the squad and playing up front with him," Rooney said.
From BBC
I composed myself by pretending that we were in the world of anti-realism.
From Los Angeles Times
“But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does,” he added.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
