pretend
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Of course, Cumming is still happy to put on a glittery outfit, amp up his Scottish accent and pretend to be the lord of the castle on “The Traitors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
And this "enabled the club to pretend that such funds represented operating income".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Herzog doesn’t have the answer to that question, and he doesn’t pretend to.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Or, when caught, how to pretend to be shut down.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was a wild ruckus outside with leaves and branches blowing by and Lulu hiding under the bed trying to pretend she wasn’t scared, just curious about those dust balls.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
In one widely shared video, Maleeha Akhter, 21, an activist with a left-wing student group, pretends to rock a baby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
"He is not happy, he pretends he is happy," said Tamim.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Following Mozart’s successful debut at court, Salieri cozies up to him and pretends to aid his cause.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
The bot’s final product is exactly that: an essay that pretends to divulge, to confess, to promise, and to portray.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
“You be careful, now,” she says, and she kisses her palm and pretends to blow it in my direction.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Also this year, Cohen’s press officer secretly was recorded by a woman who pretended to be on a date with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He then pretended to board the old Air Force One, only to secretly switch planes by hiding in a refueling truck, due to security threats.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Instead, Owens pretended there are numerous holes in the case.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
That legacy belongs to the young girl who once pretended to be a boy just to box when girls were not allowed.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
When she heard her door open, Cat’s brain was buzzing, but she pretended to be asleep.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Anthropic’s model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it submitted the tip pretending to be someone who might have information about an unsolved case, police said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
At one Scottish school, staff have decided that pretending AI doesn't exist is not an option.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
You know it, they know it, there’s no point pretending otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
She’d watched it live, according to Professor Treebaun, but I appreciated that she was pretending she hadn’t.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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