charade
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What we have now is a shallow affair and it’s not fair to you that the charade continue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Dr Bączyk-Bell said the process had been a "facetious charade" and it was a "false equivalence" to talk about hurt caused to those who had been theologically opposed to the idea of marriage equality.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Having never signed up for this sad charade, malicious compliance is one of the few weapons she has.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
Why force myself to go through with this charade again?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
And each day, I learned, in one or another way, of more support from non-Muslim Negroes, including a surprising lot of the “middle” and “upper class” black bourgeoisie, who were sick of the status-symbol charade.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
In playing charades with our friends, for example, we aim to prevail, but only in fun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
"We divided attendees into groom and bride's teams and organised games like charades and guessing who the relative is from a stereotype," said CEO Anurag Pandey.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
Writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh had the honors Sunday, and she gamely followed the script’s instructions as though presiding over an evening of charades that an oracle had dreamed up in advance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
Hitler ran a regime that engaged in elaborate charades to bamboozle sympathetic and influential foreigners about the nature of the Nazi state.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
It must have been half past five in the morning, well after several delirious games of cards and charades that had been brought on by too much candy and too little sleep.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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