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charade

[shuh-rayd, shuh-rahd] / ʃəˈreɪd, ʃəˈrɑd /


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Chaminade student Pablo Suarez pulled off the charade of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

But the not-working group had been functioning quite well, at least as a charade for delay and obfuscation.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

Why force myself to go through with this charade again?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025

“Jain’s and Cohen’s months-long charade was deliberate, coordinated, and unlawful,” Palantir said in the lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

We had already spent the morning at an auction, where she bought up exotic trinkets to use in her charade as Madam L. L. Lucille.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Over five hours, the families competed in 12 events spanning from Jenga to charades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"We divided attendees into groom and bride's teams and organised games like charades and guessing who the relative is from a stereotype," said CEO Anurag Pandey.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Hitler ran a regime that engaged in elaborate charades to bamboozle sympathetic and influential foreigners about the nature of the Nazi state.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

She tried and quickly abandoned trying to teach them how to play charades; they were simply no good at guessing the names of famous people, since they had never heard of any of them.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood


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