pretended
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He slipped on the back steps last winter, and we both pretended it didn’t scare us, but he could have just as easily slipped on another stairwell.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Pressed — surely she’s pretended to be sick to get out of a party? — she concedes she has, explaining that she thought he meant the criminal case against her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Then he headed back to barracks, where he sat with the surviving troops and pretended he had suffered a concussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"They pretended to be big players in the PPE market. They pretended to have PPE for sale and to be able to buy vast amounts of it," Bisgrove added.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“It must be the neoclassical symmetry of his eyebrows,” she murmured, and pretended to sketch those very eyebrows in the margin of her book with a fingertip.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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