How to Use pseudo in a Sentence

pseudo

adjective

• The new exiles formed various pseudo-state structures around her.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The sexiest bells and whistles on the Watch are the pseudo-medical devices.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• Nurses and home care workers in Ohio need facemasks, not pseudo-campaign flyer postcards.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
• The league will quarantine participants and their guests in a pseudo-bubble hotel.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Then there is its pseudo-serious side, where typists write stories about serious subjects, like climate change.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• The film has a pseudo-literary construction, built, as a title card declares, in twelve chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• There’s a lot of gruesome pseudo-medical procedures going on, including a shot of someone’s mouth being stitched up that will haunt our dreams.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• The downstairs display creates a modest, pseudo-domestic encounter, with a sofa, a couple of chairs, dim lighting and low ceilings.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 1 May 2021
• But given time, dark fantasy came to describe novels set in a pseudo-mythological past that was, for all intents and purposes, godless.
  — Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
• Quantum physics has long been the go-to discipline for anyone in need of a pseudo-scientific justification for a quack theory.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• The parents and activists have organized through a new group called Bonds for the Win, which is named for a financial instrument at the heart of the pseudo-legal effort.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
• The pastel-blue armchair is part of a set that was designed by Parisian maker Georges Jacob in a pseudo-classical Etruscan manner.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• The NFTs can be seen as a pseudo-war bond, where people can invest in the certificates of ownership for the digital assets as a debt-security.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2022
• By his senior season, Finley was like a pseudo-offensive coordinator for Ponchatoula, which had a roster of mostly sophomores that year.
  — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2022
• Sadly, the good intentions of many policy proposals are undermined by pseudo-scientific requirements.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• By the late 1780s, the queen had moved on from le goût chinois to the pseudo-classical Etruscan style, and proceeded to remodel her apartments at Versailles in this manner.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 16 Nov. 2022
• Police officers apprehend them unharmed and the mainstream media rushes to humanize them with pseudo-psychological analysis of a white male who is a troubled loner and victim of his own impulses.
  — Malika Redmond, Essence, 10 June 2021
• The best that CPUs can generate are pseudo-random numbers, churned out by running a seed number through a complex algorithm, then running the solution through the same operation over and over again.
  — Jonathon Keats, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2012
• Other recent polls have indicated that public belief in things like conspiracy theories or other pseudo-scientific phenomena are equally prevalent.
  — Sander Van Der Linden, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Reynolds, who lived in Everman, south of Fort Worth, filed lengthy court briefings in his criminal case, sprinkled liberally with trademark pseudo-legal jargon common to sovereign citizens.
  — Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Democratic-republicanism ensures that the people and their representatives, instead of pseudo-scientific technocrats, make decisions.
  — Andy Smarick, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Such regressive tendencies have left Tarkovsky open to appropriation by the pseudo-religious illiberal ideology that has asserted itself in Putin’s Russia.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The pseudo-scientific formula that explains most human bonding is basically time + affection + togetherness = relationship.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 July 2021
• The audience gets glimmers of Katie and Greg’s relationship, but the show is bogged down by dull characters like the policeman who seems to have it out for Greg, and even by its focus on Archie’s point of view, which is just a depiction of narcissism and a formulaic pseudo-midlife crisis.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
• And residents in some communities say they are alarmed by the rising profile of armed gatherings, provoking memories of the pseudo-military groups that spread violence in Charlottesville during 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2020
• 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
• These currencies are an integral part of cybercrime operations, as they are poorly understood and are often pseudo-anonymous, says Kristina Amerhauser, a senior analyst from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2025