charade
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Chaminade student Pablo Suarez pulled off the charade of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 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
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
“Oh! Miss Woodhouse, what a pity that I must not write this beautiful charade into my book! I am sure I have not got one half so good.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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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