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• Or pretend to not hear the question and change the subject.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• Watch Matthias pretend to play along in time with the church band and his father's preaching.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• During the day, Taylen would grab anyone's phone and pretend to call his mom.
  — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• The film revolves around a non-couple who have to pretend to be a couple?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• Some called in sick, too sleep-deprived and overwhelmed by news to even pretend to work.
  — Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• The best way to pretend to be a human chatting is to fine-tune on human chat logs.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2023
• Others want to take an adorable paw or floppy ear and pretend to eat it.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some may rush to bed quickly and pretend to be asleep when their partner comes.
  — Sara Kuburic, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
• What Mercy is meant to do about it, Expats does not pretend to know.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• Someone can steal your old username and pretend to be you.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
• The poster is advised to tell their wife to remove the bike battery and pretend to have a nonelectric bike.
  — Curbed, 30 Aug. 2023
• There are a lot of ways to help your kid pretend to vacuum, but this one is a bit complex for its own good.
  — Martin Cizmar, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Boring doesn’t sell, and the Yankees cannot even pretend to be pushing for a pennant.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• James was sitting in a room for nine hours having to pretend to be reading a script, that is rare and that is special.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 5 May 2023
• This steam is then used to turn an electric turbine (don't pretend to be surprised).
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
• There’s always been a market for people who pretend to know the future.
  — John Jennings, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Also, a drug dealer is a bad guy, but a drug dealer doesn’t pretend to be anything but a bad guy.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• Taylor likens Emma to the historic figure and says that boys would change their ways (or pretend to, anyway) for the chance to be with her.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 7 July 2023
• Did some people only pretend to like him because of his dad?
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• Okay, so she’s...being paid by an 19-year-old’s parents to pretend to be his girlfriend and bring him out of his shell in exchange for a car?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2023
• Nothing else moves, although the dancing lilies pretend to.
  — Zuyi Zhao, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• The scammers often call a victim and pretend to be a loved one in distress, asking them to send money.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• Polley, her collaborators and her cast don’t pretend to have the answers any more than the book did or most of us do.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• Hoping to avoid questions about his love life, Peter asks his best friend, Nick, to come home with him for the holidays and pretend to be his boyfriend.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 Dec. 2022
• Don't forget to make s'mores (or at least pretend to make s'mores with Fisher-Price's pretend camping set).
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 27 Dec. 2022
• One is so rude just entering the shop that the braiders, usually hungry for business, pretend to be booked.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Like most images of Trump, his mug shot does not pretend to soften its collision.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
• As a critic, maybe I’m supposed to pretend to that kind of finality.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• No one wants to have to ask for the gift receipt or pretend to like that Christmas sweater that can only be described as offensive.
  — Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• At first, Tracy tried to pretend to herself that nothing had happened.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024