masquerade

The brick triangle-roofed church that held the booth has stood since opening in 1892; that night, it was the site of a masquerade, or as Riverside artist Perry Picasshoe called it, the “Masqueerade.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Like most bad ideas, the masquerade came to England from France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The author’s ambivalence resembles that of the fellow who supposedly protested the mixing of classes on the dance floor by commissioning a wood-and-plaster coffin as a costume for a Cornelys masquerade in 1771.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The Bohemian second son has so far refused to settle down, but this all changes when he meets a masked lady in silver at a masquerade ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

My masquerade continued until my father got wind of it.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

By 1717 he was soliciting his opera subscribers to buy tickets, eventually hosting six masquerades a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

But it all falls broadly under the same boring commodification of the idea of “mental health”: a sweatshirt or a lipstick or a funny TikTok video that masquerades as more than it is.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2023

Although the letter doesn’t clearly define pseudoscience, Lau notes that a “commonsensical definition” is that pseudoscience refers to “something that is not very scientifically supported, that masquerades as if it is already very scientifically established.”

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

It masquerades as a two-dollar word, but it’s really worth only about twenty cents.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“For over a decade, these three brothers, the defendants, masqueraded as party boys when really they were predators,” said prosecutor Madison Smyser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Last season he had masqueraded as Player 001, fooling Gi-hun into trusting him throughout the games and with the armed rebellion, which Front Man of course sabotaged.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025

While evading police, Morgan masqueraded as a rapper and tech entrepreneur.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023

One of the nation’s leading authorities on cults that masqueraded as churches, schools, self-help centers and wellness movements, Morantz died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, his son Chaz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Bored of these women, bored of these cavaliers who masqueraded as companions, bored of everything.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Hunter Schafer plays Yeoh’s partner, a human masquerading as a replicant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The agent even sent people direct messages masquerading as the real people it had researched.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

I hadn’t learned yet that I was a Type A person masquerading as Type B. The disguise began to fray almost immediately.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

This may be a financial burden masquerading as an opportunity.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

The injustice of the situation confirmed Ann’s view of Durham as a conservative-to-reactionary town masquerading as a progressive one.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson