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"make believe that" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about suspending disbelief and accepting something as true despite not actually being true. For example, "The kids pretended to go on a spaceship adventure and they made believe that they were crossing the galaxy."
Idiom
To make believe.
To pretend.
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So it pays to make believe that private is productive and public is sterile, that private is stable and public is not, when the reality is the other way around.
Officials make believe that just banks are paying it".
"Visa and MasterCard like to make believe that they're competitors.
On weekends, we make believe that we're chefs.
We make believe that we're paying for milk, bread, mustard.
Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people".
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QUESTION: And making believe that you love them, just like them.
It makes believe that sovereign control of borders and currency and tariffs is the key to hope and prosperity.
Making believe that the shrunken electorate of 2014 is somehow a proxy for 2016 is delusional at best.
That is to say that thought experiments satisfy the two requirements of fictionality: to make-believe that certain circumstances, situations, conditions, etc., hold, and to not constrain the made-belief world by actual events (see Davies, 2007, p. 31-33).
As soon as I exited the building I bolted back to my apartment and swore I'd never make-believe that I was disabled again.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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