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"to pretend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a situation in which someone is making a show of false beliefs or feelings. For example: We pretended that we didn't know the truth about what had happened.
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to pretend
verb
To claim, allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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To pretend.
They didn't have to pretend.
It's naïve to pretend otherwise.
I don't want to pretend.
We like to pretend.
We got to pretend".
It's stupid to pretend.
He likes to pretend we're married.
I just like to pretend I do.
To pretend that they are Christian.
"They don't have to pretend anything.
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