charade
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The charade will help Stewart close a business deal and make him the favored Whitfield to take over the family’s real-estate empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Dr Bączyk-Bell said the process had been a "facetious charade" and it was a "false equivalence" to talk about hurt caused to those who had been theologically opposed to the idea of marriage equality.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
But ProPublica found that those claims were a charade: Lifesaving programs remained on the books, but the flow of money didn’t restart for months, if at all.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Why force myself to go through with this charade again?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
Brannon, now bound to play out whatever mad charade that Odum wished, dutifully and with utmost gravity began to consume his cigar after he had carefully extinguished it in his water glass.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
In playing charades with our friends, for example, we aim to prevail, but only in fun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
It originated from these epic charades games we would play at her house with her kids and friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
“I’m really enjoying this game of charades, by the way. First word, sounds like?”
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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