façade
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"The humour is still there but we start to see cracks in the facade."
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The museum will also have a new entrance on its eastern facade to help ease congestion at its current glass-and-metal pyramid entry point.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
“There’s this facade, but then there’s this whole world going on inside her head,” Mumolo said.
From Salon • May 11, 2026
While Metcalf’s Linda adopts a facade of stoicism to shield her family from the grief erupting in her, Abbott’s Biff is forced to reveal the broken man behind the defiant veneer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
But behind that bluff facade some distinct and rather ominous changes were taking place, changes of which I was already dimly aware but which made themselves more evident as time went on.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing façade
The Great Gatsby
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The Lightning Thief
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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