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
Ex-Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, now in exile, described the process as a charade which generated "fabricated" results.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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
“Depends on how long the school can keep up this charade before things go badly.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
A game of charades, which serves as a substitute for the play-within-a-play, exposes Rev’s guilt as effectively as “The Mousetrap” catches the conscience of the king in “Hamlet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The games and amusements that had passed the time for them on board Endurance were forgotten; no one had the heart for charades or poetry recitals or comic songs.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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