pretend
Example Sentences
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“Although I got less bearish as we declined in the war’s wake, I won’t pretend I wasn’t still leaning short.”
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
Maslany: My instinct is to curl into a ball and pretend it never happened.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
The terseness is the message: Beijing no longer feels obliged to pretend it is weighing the costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
It would be daft to pretend that Holyrood can resolve all of these issues.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
I’d have to pretend I didn’t know anything about it—lie, essentially—or tell him the truth about the scroll.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Vocabulary lists containing pretend
"Eleven"
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"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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