as in pretended
to present a false appearance of
shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy
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Samara Weaving once pretended to be her lookalike friend, Margot Robbie.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
29 May 2026 -
Faced with one of Musk’s seemingly impossible mandates, those strong employees rarely pretended to already know the solution.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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Gordon assumed the role in August 2024, after serving for eight years as the head of the National Institute of Mental Health.—
Megan Molteni,
STAT,
5 June 2026
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It was assumed to have been seized by the Nazis in 1938 or later.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
5 June 2026
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Guided by this concept, the team simulated more than 1,500 robot configurations to identify a design close to their theoretical performance limit.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
27 May 2026
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However, in the various productivity tasks simulated in the Geekbench test, the iPad Pro pulled far and away from the Surface Pro, seen below.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
23 May 2026
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“Shammed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shammed. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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