pseudo-event

Example Sentences

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Charlottesville has long since come to betray all the cynicism of a pseudo-event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

That was when we finally got a glimpse of how this pseudo-event was going to be received by the media.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2022

Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the "pseudo-event."

From Fox News • Aug. 1, 2021

Every pseudo-event “becomes all the more interesting with our every effort to debunk it.”

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2018

Mostly, though, they manage to stage an elaborate pseudo-event and to bamboozle millions of people into paying attention.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016