pretend

They can’t pretend that speeding through the breeze could liberate them from day-to-day life, and the singer asks, retrospectively, “Do you look forward to the past / Or forward to today?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

I’m not, I don’t pretend to be an enormously transformative actor, hunting for the “chameleon” praise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

This is not a 30-minute dinner, and there is no reason to pretend otherwise.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

All of these companies have warned consumers that bad actors will continue to pretend to be something they’re not.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Would that be weird on a pretend date?

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

What’s disheartening is that she pretends there is no connection, telling Vogue Italia last week, “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks to me, and that is the opposite of making art.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

"He is not happy, he pretends he is happy," said Tamim.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

The bot’s final product is exactly that: an essay that pretends to divulge, to confess, to promise, and to portray.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country's biggest unions, verbally attacked Mullin at a 2023 hearing, calling him a "greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Let us next examine the question: Is Hardman the person he pretends to be—an operative of a New York Detective Agency?

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

In 2024, the Foreign Office confirmed then-foreign secretary Lord Cameron had been the victim of a hoax call in which someone pretended to be former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rand pretended to be me and I pretended to be Rand,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Hine often donned disguises or pretended to be inspecting a factory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s been widely reported that in the ’80s and ’90s, Trump sometimes pretended to be his own publicist, John Barron, when talking to reporters.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

He pretended he was an enthusiastic militant Confederate eager to continue to fight the war, wherever it was.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The right answer is safeguards, not pretending a publicly visible plate is private: short retention, audited access, limits on data sharing, and a warrant for broad historical-tracking queries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Acting involved pretending to be other people, whose own emotional states —such as she understood them — could preoccupy her for a time,” writes Cusk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Former Prime Minister Lord Cameron also exchanged some text messages with the impersonator pretending to be Poroshenko, who was president of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday confirmed he had exchanged messages with someone pretending to be US President Donald Trump's chief of staff.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Right Reverend draped his arm around my shoulder, pretending to appear fatherly.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan