pretense
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Pitino has made a smooth transition to college basketball’s wild new order, in which the pretense of amateurism has been abandoned and the transfer portal reshapes the roster every 12 months.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
She had been through life’s fires and knew that when it’s a fit, it should not be based on any false pretense.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
Five days earlier, at around 7 a.m., the couple had crossed the border into Kazakhstan in a hired Toyota Hiace van, under the pretense of taking a vacation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
By the end, he abandons any pretense of legal reasoning, quoting lines from the majority and waving them away as “misleading,” without any explanation.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025
But he knew that if he stayed he would not be able to keep up the pretense.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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