pretext
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We still see this in so many cases involving the Fourth Amendment, when police use the alleged smell of marijuana as a pretext for an illegal search.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I guess it can be seen as a pretext for the album. Just … be sweet,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
But some industry watchers say firms are using the technology as a pretext for other cost-cutting.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
That juror, Myra Crosby, has said Hill pressed her about her doubts about the prosecution’s case, then used bogus social-media posts as a pretext for engineering her ouster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
I was about to use it as a pretext for starting a conversation when the train stopped again.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He is facing his own criminal probe related to cost overruns during renovations of Fed properties - concerns he has called "pretexts".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
"The pretexts used to justify such actions are untenable. Ideological hostility has triumphed over businesslike pragmatism," it added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
The pretexts are flimsy; due process is absent, and mistakes have already been made.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2025
Thus the Red and White Roses were united and the pretexts for civil war done away with.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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