pseudo-event

Example Sentences

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Charlottesville has long since come to betray all the cynicism of a pseudo-event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the "pseudo-event."

From Fox News • Aug. 1, 2021

They had wasted no time in moving on to the next pseudo-event, this one in New Hampshire.

From Salon • Feb. 29, 2020

Every pseudo-event “becomes all the more interesting with our every effort to debunk it.”

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2018

Boorstin described public-opinion research as “a kind of pseudo-event, forced into existence for the primary purpose of being reported” — an unreal thing with real consequences.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018