Examples of pseudo in a Sentence
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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Gadjovich went pseudo-viral following Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final last season, a 6-1 Panthers win over the Edmonton Oilers, following a full line brawl in the third period capped by a lengthy fight between Gadjovich and the Oilers’ Darnell Nurse.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
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
Snooping around the fancy Manodrome mansion — where other lost souls feel a sense of pseudo-familial support — Ralphie finds a gun in Dan’s desk drawer (likely stashed there by Chekhov).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
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Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
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
Snooping around the fancy Manodrome mansion — where other lost souls feel a sense of pseudo-familial support — Ralphie finds a gun in Dan’s desk drawer (likely stashed there by Chekhov).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
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“Pseudo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pseudo. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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