masquerade

The brick triangle-roofed church that held the booth has stood since opening in 1892; that night, it was the site of a masquerade, or as Riverside artist Perry Picasshoe called it, the “Masqueerade.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

When the trend for masquerade balls arrived in England, savvy promoters made them high-priced events for the followers of fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The production, co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, jettisons the animal masquerade for a different kind of drag extravaganza.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

This is going to be some kind of schoolboy masquerade, I thought, some masquerade with masks and candles.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

Because it often masquerades as self-control or health-consciousness, orthorexia is easy to overlook, even by people suffering from it.

From Slate ● May 25, 2025

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

Over eight weeks in the run-up to the event, the artists at her Harlesden studio, Mahogany Carnival, pour their hearts and souls into designing and constructing unique masquerades for 200 revellers.

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

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

“I immediately dived into what I normally say, that I’m not a very good golfer anymore, that I masqueraded as a golfer in college,” Nantz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

He had masqueraded at the hospital for eight years conducting competency evaluations on people accused of crimes before his fraud was uncovered.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

To start, they’ve been masquerading as a vegetable when they are actually classified as botanical fruits.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

On Oakland’s fringe there was a neighborhood, masquerading as an entirely separate town, called Rockridge.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis