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
I’ll tell you who was unhappy, tired and bored: All the mainstream journalists who felt personally insulted after traveling all that way for a depressing pseudo-event with crap ratings.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
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
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.'"
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
