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masquerade

[mas-kuh-reyd] / ˌmæs kəˈreɪd /




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And though the high gloss may be an act given Gaston’s actual vocation, Marshall plays the part as if the crook himself believes the masquerade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

As historian David Garrow documents, King believed that violence collapsed the moral clarity the movement depended on, allowing repression to masquerade as order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The only question left is how long she can keep up the masquerade before even her audience sees through it.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

Or carved into furniture, wooden masks used in the Makishi ancestral masquerade - and a wooden box used to store tools when people were out hunting.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

Dinky was trying to masquerade as this patriarch that he wasn’t.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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