pretense

It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Rubio added that the Nicaraguan leader and his wife, Rosario Murillo, whom Ortega named as his "co-president" in February 2025, had "abandoned even the pretense of popular consent".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

But recent scholarship has exploded this pretense and identified hundreds of anonymous tracts and articles that Paine seems to have written in the years before his emigration to America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

This year, McVay avoided any pretense of suspense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

When she gets to me, Fauzia drops the pretense of her cold smile.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Jiaying Chen, 33, admitted to one count of bigamy and one count of obtaining money under false pretenses in a plea agreement filed in Clark County District Court on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Barofsky said Fain declared under false pretenses that Boyer had been derelict in his duties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But that news is tempered by the drumbeat of reports from the other end of the airport, where scores of arriving travelers have been detained in frightening conditions and under flimsy pretenses.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

Despite the Oscars being more global and diverse than ever, it seems like Academy voters have yet to shed their pretenses when considering truly noteworthy work that doesn’t fall neatly into a box.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025

Her mom had never put up any pretenses about being overly religious.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson