pretending
Example Sentences
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An adventurer who lost a leg in a motorbike crash has warned people not to send money in response to social media messages from someone pretending to be him.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Anthropic’s model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it submitted the tip pretending to be someone who might have information about an unsolved case, police said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It would be strange for the Dodgers to bench Shohei Ohtani, but it’s clear that pretending he’s healthy enough to provide meaningful at-bats isn’t helping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
This pretending still felt kind of silly to Renata.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
