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feinting

verb

present participle of feint

as in bluffing

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This, the team says, leads machines to make moves a human would only do while bluffing—and follow up on them much better than humans.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
As for the threats to pull up stakes, most people in 1934 thought Hollywood was bluffing.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of bluffing

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The lawsuit, organized by the attorneys general of 29 US states, alleged that Meta executives like Mark Zuckerberg created a system that abused data collected from minors, while feigning ignorance about the harms their platforms caused.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
Patterson was accused of pretending to eat the same portion, and of feigning illness in an elaborate ruse to suggest she’d also been poisoned.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of feigning

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Make roots easier to work around by concealing them with mulch or groundcovering plants that don’t need trimming.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026
Kingston Bradley of Smyrna, Georgia, was arrested and charged with concealing the death of another and malice murder in connection with Mosley’s death.

— Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of concealing

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Hüller was to play a woman disguising herself as a male soldier in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, ingratiating herself in a small Protestant village.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
Alas, by disguising themselves in earthling form, these superior beings must submit themselves to the worst indignities of the human condition — namely the frequent need to go to the bathroom and the constant nuisance of dealing with emotions.

— Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of disguising

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Silicon sampling troubles some polling traditionalists who are uneasy about ethical and other implications of simulating human responses.

— W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
For Martens, the best way to do this is by simulating aspects of gameplay, which can only be achieved by integrating goalkeeper training with the outfield positions.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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