pretend
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“We try to pretend that everything is OK, but it is definitely not OK. And I don’t know how much longer we can go on living like this,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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
But I don’t want to pretend I value the friendship more than I do, simply because she’s generous.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Sing and pretend to be happy until she took the road to Galway.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"He is not happy, he pretends he is happy," said Tamim.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
“He’s not crazy, he only pretends to be” isn’t a viable defense in the real world.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
Rhonda had fallen victim to what is known as impersonation scam, where a fraudster pretends to be from a bank or other financial institution.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
He is not the muscular president he pretends to be on television.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
Then he pretends to bite into an invisible sandwich.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
These were that Simpson, from Aberdeen, pretended to employees he was a medical student authorised to be in ARI.
From BBC ● 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
Rand pretended to be me and I pretended to be Rand,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
She pretended to be deeply interested in her fabrics.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
El-Sayed has figured out how to talk to the people who love Fox without pretending that the network is something it isn’t.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
It’s more money for more stuff, when you should be at least pretending to care about the future.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Immigration enforcement have made arrests in connection with a suspected criminal network believed to be behind dozens of fake asylum claims from people pretending to be gay.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The only reason I knew they expected me to eat the pebble-like pellets was the way the big ogre kept pretending to put them into its mouth.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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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