pseudo-event

Example Sentences

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I’ll tell you who was unhappy, tired and bored: All the mainstream journalists who felt personally insulted after traveling all that way for a depressing pseudo-event with crap ratings.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

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

Beyond that, it is, like the Comedy Central roasts, a pseudo-event that exists mostly to be talked about.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016

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