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been pretend
verb
To claim, allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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"I think that sexuality is a process, an evolution, and I realised when I had my first experience with a man, that everything beforehand had been pretend".
That is the real injustice from the Agüero saga other than the insinuation, with City protesting the player's innocence, that it must have been pretend agony that put Reid on the floor.
The Netanyahu formula has been: pretend that you support a two-state solution to the conflict, negotiate in bad faith, blame the Palestinians if you can't reach agreement.
If you haven't been, pretend you're just really tired.
Similar(55)
I'd been pretending before.
It's pretend.
They're pretend books.
What is pretend?
Gerwig said, gently, "It's pretend.
Except that this is pretend.
This is pretend, movie-star eating.
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