charade

Chaminade student Pablo Suarez pulled off the charade of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

The charade will help Stewart close a business deal and make him the favored Whitfield to take over the family’s real-estate empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the not-working group had been functioning quite well, at least as a charade for delay and obfuscation.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 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

A part of him—indeed, a large part—was enjoying this charade, this moment wherein he plunged headfirst into this caricature the humans had created.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

She had gone to parties, played charades, competed in poetry readings, joined a chorus and orchestra.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck