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Here at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, you have your heads of state, your foreign ministers, your titans of business, your intellectuals (pseudo and real)—but you also have Sharon Stone, Angelina Jolie, and Richard Gere.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2005
Freemasonry, intensely popular in the eighteenth century, had inherited from earlier pseudo Egyptology a fascination with pyramids and hieroglyphs, but it defanged the occult into something harmless enough to go on the back of the great seal of the sunny-side-up American republic.
—Simon Schama, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2001
… whoever is deceived by the pseudo activity under Mussolini is deceived by the spasmotic last jerk of a corpse.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 19 Apr. 1925
the pseudo friendliness of a salesperson trying to sell you something
Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2005
Freemasonry, intensely popular in the eighteenth century, had inherited from earlier pseudo Egyptology a fascination with pyramids and hieroglyphs, but it defanged the occult into something harmless enough to go on the back of the great seal of the sunny-side-up American republic.
—Simon Schama, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2001
… whoever is deceived by the pseudo activity under Mussolini is deceived by the spasmotic last jerk of a corpse.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 19 Apr. 1925
the pseudo friendliness of a salesperson trying to sell you something
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This could certainly change if the Rockets land a certain French teenager in this year's draft lottery, but the first half of 2022-23 has assuaged some concerns about the long-term viability of a pseudo-twin-towers in the starting lineup with Jabari Smith flanked by Alperen Şengün.
—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
In a code division scheme, each call is encoded in a random or pseudo-random sequencing, and receivers at the other end are equipped to decode their own calls.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
Many of the individual works are stellar, but the theme is so baggy as to be meaningless, and the wall labels have a rote, pseudo-academic quality.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
If the tree happened to be on ancestral indigenous land, someone invented racist, pseudo-indigenous fictions to lend the tree an aura of romance.
—Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
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Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
In a code division scheme, each call is encoded in a random or pseudo-random sequencing, and receivers at the other end are equipped to decode their own calls.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
Many of the individual works are stellar, but the theme is so baggy as to be meaningless, and the wall labels have a rote, pseudo-academic quality.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
If the tree happened to be on ancestral indigenous land, someone invented racist, pseudo-indigenous fictions to lend the tree an aura of romance.
—Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
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“Pseudo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pseudo. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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