as in pretends
to present a false appearance of
in public they pass for being a loving couple, but in reality they are only friends
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Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.
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The person on the phone pretends to be IT support and tries to convince the employee to install remote desktop software.
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This year's scenario simulates an airplane crash into a building, creating multiple injuries and casualties.
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The Supercomputer simulates the remaining fixtures of a season 10,000 times and analyses the results to create an average league table from those simulations.
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The dominant policy framework assumes that broader access equals better outcomes.
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This assumes, of course, that a work permit eventually comes through.
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Scientific American spoke with Devika Bhushan, a public health physician and adjunct faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine, who studies gender norms, about the ways in which fatherhood affects men’s brains and the mental health struggles dads face.
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More than four decades later, Campbell says the loss still affects her every day.
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“Passes (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passes%20%28for%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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