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Once inside the Twitter accounts of famous individuals, they pretended to be the celebrities and tweeted asking followers to send Bitcoin to various digital wallets promising to double their money.

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I pretended to be a silly girl who has nothing better to do after school.

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The ninth time Eisman retrieved a ball from some sand trap, or pretended his shot had not splashed into the water, he acted with the same unapologetic aplomb he had demonstrated the first time.

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Unlike the leaders of those three countries, however, Vladimir Putin has never pretended to be a man of the left.

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“I’m someone who put a blanket under my shirt and pretended I was pregnant at like 5 years old. I’ve never questioned that I want that.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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