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as in pretended
to present a false appearance of
he dissembled happiness at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married—to someone else
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as in dissimulated
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age
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The rest of his Republican colleagues gleefully approved the bill and have pretended ever since that their vote was the right thing to do.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025 -
Tapping into his State Farm acting chops on fourth down while leading 7-0, Mahomes pretended to be frustrated with a Reid play-call before handing the ball off.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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Khaled assumed he was being moved to yet another prison, until he was taken to a place called Ward A.—
Mosab Abu Toha,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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This is why, for most of the 20th century — until the 1980s — people assumed that the hot Big Bang implied a singularity at the beginning.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
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Wednesday’s ballistic missile launches by North Korea were the first of their kind since the country on May 8 tested short-range systems that simulated nuclear counterstrikes against US and South Korean forces.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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