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was pretended
verb
To claim, allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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By then, the giggles must have changed to Jovian laughter: Kaplan told me he has a number of lawyers in his family and so it was pretended that this permission to look at my archive had mysteriously de-authorized the Clemons book and my own as well.
For a while, it was pretended that Claudius was still alive, with all of those involved in the plot (including Halotus) undertaking their normal duties.
Similar(57)
"They thought he was pretending.
I was pretending to be me.
Ah, so she was pretending.
He thought I was pretending.
Maybe he was pretending it was Nato.
He was pretending to be me.
Everybody else was pretending I wasn't there".
Adam was pretending to be a dog for Elsa.
I was pretending I forgot!
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