pretended
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At Thanksgiving, he dozed off at the table, and the kids pretended not to notice.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
"I am the man you left for dead. I am the one you pretended never existed," he declares.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Then he headed back to barracks, where he sat with the surviving troops and pretended he had suffered a concussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Also this year, Cohen’s press officer secretly was recorded by a woman who pretended to be on a date with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Does that mean your sister was someone who pretended to be a whatnot, too?”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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