pretext
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“We’re worried this is a pretext for people to fall out of the asylum system and fall out of the workforce,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
But some industry watchers say firms are using the technology as a pretext for other cost-cutting.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
"Why affect almost 23 million students under this absurd pretext?"
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
The arrangement of dreams and actuality is frustratingly haphazard, more like a pretext to widen the novel’s scope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Get the heads of all the noble houses out of their pyramids on some pretext, Daario had said.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Actions over the Fed building were "pretexts", he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The same month Iraq's embassy in Moscow warned of "attempts to lure or coerce some Iraqis residing in Russia or abroad into joining the war under various pretexts".
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
The pretexts are flimsy; due process is absent, and mistakes have already been made.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2025
Ayala says she believes he was looking for pretexts to evict her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
But most of them sought pretexts for politely declining this honour.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing pretext
Animal Farm
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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Grade 11, List 2
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