pretext

Example Sentences

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"Why affect almost 23 million students under this absurd pretext?"

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The arrangement of dreams and actuality is frustratingly haphazard, more like a pretext to widen the novel’s scope.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Instead he uses the war as a pretext for urging modern Britain to “accelerate munitions production” in preparation for a “European War” whose antagonists remain largely unspecified.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

The state also pointed to later postconviction filings and defense counsel’s own affidavit suggesting that she had not in fact preserved the fuller pretext theories subsequently pressed on appeal.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

I stop Peeta’s practice, on the pretext of showing him how to rid himself of the itchy scabs, and as we scrub ourselves, I bring up our escape.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins