pass as

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Local reports say the agreement is likely to pass, as most union members come from the chip division.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

But then neither is Kate; she has a good enough moral sense to pass as a hero, but the exquisite tension of “The Diplomat” is almost always between the lesser of two evils.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

All things must pass, as George Harrison observed, and individual popularity was fleeting after the Beatles disbanded in 1970.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The advice in Vogue in June 1930 is about how to pass as not pregnant:

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Seventeen seconds pass as the pilots give technical instructions to each other.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell