pretend

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

In short, pretend work is now standing in for real work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Or, when caught, how to pretend to be shut down.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maybe it doesn’t make sense, but I can’t help thinking if Mom got in trouble, she’d pretend to be somebody else.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

The fires are not a freak event, and no one in Greece pretends they are.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

In other words, European rearmament will take time, and nobody even pretends that European troops are today fully prepared to replace American brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

"He is not happy, he pretends he is happy," said Tamim.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 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

Sometimes they do it at night, while the rest of the city pretends to sleep behind its blackout curtains.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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

Writes Ms. Aviv: “He pretended to speak casually, Andrea said, but she noticed a defiant thrill on his face.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It was the sort of thing she'd seen in one of the Marvellian vintage catalogs Mama pretended not to order from—Victoria Valerino’s Vintage Vanguard.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Prosecutors have said Linton was pretending to seize during the tests, noting the scan itself did not show brain activity consistent with an epileptic episode during the moments when she was physically reacting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But if you are hunting round for grants, watch out for scams pretending to be official money-off schemes.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

We were walking to the snack corner during morning break, me pretending I didn’t notice as we passed Kekeli and her friends behind the classrooms, getting ready for a game of ampé as usual.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo