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Example sentences for: pretending

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It's the Democrats who are supposed to be pretending that we can conduct business as usual during an impeachment trial.
But now, inserted between these two parts is a long section--this year it's 132 pages--still pretending to explain the whole thing but explaining it as having sprung full-blown from the brow of the president.
Both the NYT and WP front reports that Jordan's new leader, King Abdullah, has in recent days twice gone out among his subjects on undercover fact-finding missions, once pretending to be a television producer (complete with crew) and once an ordinary passenger in a taxicab.
What I don't admire is her pretending, however energetically, that she's doing something other than shilling for the Weinsteins.
I'm not pretending to be above all this, merely partly horrified at my own complicity.