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charade

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


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What we have now is a shallow affair and it’s not fair to you that the charade continue.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 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

Why force myself to go through with this charade again?

From MarketWatch Nov. 27, 2025

“Jain’s and Cohen’s months-long charade was deliberate, coordinated, and unlawful,” Palantir said in the lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Over five hours, the families competed in 12 events spanning from Jenga to charades.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

Writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh had the honors Sunday, and she gamely followed the script’s instructions as though presiding over an evening of charades that an oracle had dreamed up in advance.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2025

Hitler ran a regime that engaged in elaborate charades to bamboozle sympathetic and influential foreigners about the nature of the Nazi state.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2024

The games and amusements that had passed the time for them on board Endurance were forgotten; no one had the heart for charades or poetry recitals or comic songs.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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