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
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
Confident of my ignorance, he was willing to let the charade continue.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
There had been dances and cornhuskings and candymakings throughout the neighborhood; there had been afternoons of horseshoe pitching and evenings of charades.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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