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
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
The album is called “The Real Me,” and the whole thing is a charade — and very Kyle Mooney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Was the KGB's discovery of the Berlin Tunnel a charade?
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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
He read out the rules for what was essentially an arena-scale game of charades between him and the audience, in which his number of wins determined which costume he donned for the next act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Elouise has about the same enthusiasm for Pictionary as I had for charades, but it doesn’t take Jamie very long to convince her to play.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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