pretending
Example Sentences
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He said as his following has grown on social media, so have the fake accounts pretending to be him.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Anthropic’s model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it submitted the tip pretending to be someone who might have information about an unsolved case, police said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
El-Sayed has figured out how to talk to the people who love Fox without pretending that the network is something it isn’t.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Prosecutors have said Linton was pretending to seize during the tests, noting the scan itself did not show brain activity consistent with an epileptic episode during the moments when she was physically reacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She wrote a false letter to the New York court, pretending to be Ferdie and Henry’s British relative, “Uncle Edward.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
