pretense
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This is the kind of art that would find a suitable home in a crypto king’s Miami mansion, and whose pretense of depth can’t conceal its wallowing in the shallows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Yet he did not muster even the pretense of evidence that they pose an “imminent threat.”
From Slate • Feb. 28, 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
Ironically, the situation now is a bastard version of one reform favored by free market types: paying athletes without any pretense that they are real students.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
It was a pretense, his dithering refusal—he was one of the most confident people she had ever met.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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