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charade

[shuh-reyd, shuh-rahd] / ʃəˈreɪd, ʃəˈrɑd /


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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

Ex-Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, now in exile, described the process as a charade which generated "fabricated" results.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

But ProPublica found that those claims were a charade: Lifesaving programs remained on the books, but the flow of money didn’t restart for months, if at all.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

Why force myself to go through with this charade again?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025

“I do think it is, without exception, the best charade I ever read.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

In playing charades with our friends, for example, we aim to prevail, but only in fun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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

It was a lot to glean from a round of charades.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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