as in assuming
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as in pretending
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well
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Verb
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While maintaining a quirky and mysterious air, the show yields questions like, is a cult real if its creators are pretending but its followers aren’t?—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
24 Dec. 2024 -
June Squibb plays the titular Thelma, who gets taken in by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson Danny (Fred Hechinger) to the tune of $10,000.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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But for Williams, there was nothing dishonest about celebrating a dunk.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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And Kelly claimed that in his responses, Hegseth has been dishonest with the American people.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The character is an insincere male feminist who makes performative comments about healing psychological trauma and supporting women.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Personalization is key to effective cold emailing, but doing it wrong can make your emails feel insincere or even drive people away.—
Samuel Darwin,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The officers reached out to deputies and shared that the individuals in the phony fire truck attempted to enter an evacuation zone.—
Stepheny Price,
Fox News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Recipients are notified through text messages of phony city parking tickets, with instructions to click on a link and pay the balance online.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But there’s a rule in Wales where you’re not allowed to even have fake cigarettes on a film set.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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The fake list contains a few different hyper-obscure characters that seem potentially unlikely to arrive.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For all of their uneasy gazing and silent discernment, artful visages are a key element in the decor.—
Leilani Marie Labong,
Architectural Digest,
15 Jan. 2025
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Walls have artisan rugs as artwork; while, underfoot, carpets are handwoven and artful clusters of lights are made from traditional glass lanterns.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Why is red 40 banned? California became the first state in the U.S. to enact a ban red 40 in September, when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that will prohibit schools from serving foods containing six artificial food dyes, including red 40.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA TODAY,
21 Jan. 2025
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Throughout Trump’s long history of cashing in on his personal brand, there has never been such a dramatic injection of artificial value.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mark pulled his sister Devon (Jen Tullock) aside at a party for his pretentious brother-in-law Ricken (Michael Chernus).—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Brühl co-starred as pretentious director Eric Bouchard, with Aya Cash as producer Anita and Billy Magnussen and Richard E. Grant as actors Adam Randolph and Peter Fairchild.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Dissimulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulating. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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