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charade

[shuh-reyd, shuh-rahd] / ʃəˈreɪd, ʃəˈrɑd /


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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

But the not-working group had been functioning quite well, at least as a charade for delay and obfuscation.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2026

Why force myself to go through with this charade again?

From MarketWatch Nov. 27, 2025

Brannon, now bound to play out whatever mad charade that Odum wished, dutifully and with utmost gravity began to consume his cigar after he had carefully extinguished it in his water glass.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Over five hours, the families competed in 12 events spanning from Jenga to charades.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

She tried and quickly abandoned trying to teach them how to play charades; they were simply no good at guessing the names of famous people, since they had never heard of any of them.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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