masquerade

Afterward the beau monde had a few days to find new costumes for the Monday Mayday masquerade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

And though the high gloss may be an act given Gaston’s actual vocation, Marshall plays the part as if the crook himself believes the masquerade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Bohemian second son has so far refused to settle down, but this all changes when he meets a masked lady in silver at a masquerade ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

People knew Sceptobius was able to masquerade as an ant, but they didn’t know how it pulled it off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

The night of the masquerade I try to read in the living room, but I can’t concentrate because I’m so jittery.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

By 1717 he was soliciting his opera subscribers to buy tickets, eventually hosting six masquerades a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Although the letter doesn’t clearly define pseudoscience, Lau notes that a “commonsensical definition” is that pseudoscience refers to “something that is not very scientifically supported, that masquerades as if it is already very scientifically established.”

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

For more than 50 years the dazzling feather outfits, extravagant headdresses and sparkling masquerades of the Notting Hill Carnival have filled the streets of west London.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023

It masquerades as a two-dollar word, but it’s really worth only about twenty cents.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“For over a decade, these three brothers, the defendants, masqueraded as party boys when really they were predators,” said prosecutor Madison Smyser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Last season he had masqueraded as Player 001, fooling Gi-hun into trusting him throughout the games and with the armed rebellion, which Front Man of course sabotaged.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025

Officials say people have impersonated firefighters to get into fire-ravaged zones, and now a pair have allegedly masqueraded as members of the media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025

He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

Bored of these women, bored of these cavaliers who masqueraded as companions, bored of everything.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Hunter Schafer plays Yeoh’s partner, a human masquerading as a replicant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

I hadn’t learned yet that I was a Type A person masquerading as Type B. The disguise began to fray almost immediately.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

I keep coming back to psychoanalyst Karen Horney’s 1950 discussion of neurosis and the professions—how they can attract exactly the wrong people, masquerading ideals they don’t possess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

This may be a financial burden masquerading as an opportunity.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

“I am a military emissary caught in enemy territory masquerading as a civilian. I count as a spy. The Geneva Convention doesn’t protect me.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein