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Lewis suggested the sale of Sawyer's company, The Clinic Club, had been a sham, adding the lack of an original copy of the sale agreement or messages with the buyer, Lilly Silverman, also suggested this.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

Patients who underwent partial meniscectomy did not experience better outcomes than those who had sham surgery.

From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026

The FDA has demanded the company run another trial in which some patients would have to undergo sham brain surgery to serve as a control group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Mexican federal prosecutors concluded that the state inquiry into the shooting was a sham.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

Gatsby is alone when the book begins, and he dies alone, with his life exposed as a sham and almost no one to come to his funeral.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

In Minnesota, some Medicaid autism treatment centers, transportation providers and housing purveyors were shams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Tatyana Stanovaya, founder and CEO of R.Politik, an independent think tank on Russian politics, thinks Putin doesn’t want to rush the referendums and run the risk of them being denounced as shams.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022

He knows he can turn proceduralist rules into shams, and he knows most of his staff is either too constrained to do anything about it or unaware of what’s really going on.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2021

When they couldn't get answers, that's when they dug into it more, they determined they were shams and they began to short them.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2021

“I don’t believe one whit in such shams, nor should you, Nell Warne.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

I don’t feel like I got shammed or look like a fool.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018

The third day he set off to quarry stones again, and took with him the third meal of food; but he laid down behind it, and shammed sleep.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

All the afternoon I sat in our little sitting-room, and faithful to my promise, shammed sickness, while Samuel lay in his box in the back yard and howled.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

When she returned to the ward the chief was with her, and their combined arrival brought forth a prolonged, fortissimoed wail shammed forth in good Gaelic fashion.

From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth

It must be really serious, or she would have shammed agitation.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

In a sense, then, because the shamming always happened openly, the revelation that it was shamatory feels underwhelming.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2021

I also saw him, of course, at exercise continually, and I saw that he was becoming insane, and was being treated as if he was shamming.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018

We hope that, like the seemingly mad Edgar in King Lear, Daryl is just shamming – and that he will, like the Shakespearean dissembler, cast off his mask and take out the evil trash.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2016

If your point is that Peter is only shamming about his politics, how do you explain this willingness to be imprisoned for them?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2010

He was not even sure if Cluny was shamming, pretending that his injuries were severe merely as some kind of test or trap that he had set for his captains.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques