charade

Example Sentences

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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

“Jain’s and Cohen’s months-long charade was deliberate, coordinated, and unlawful,” Palantir said in the lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 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

They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen