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were pretend
verb
To claim, allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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Buy a body brush with natural bristles, start at your feet and work upwards, taking care to brush your skin gently and treating it as if it were (pretend if you have to!) a precious canvas worth millions.
I think that the Democratic voters of the third are as smart as or smarter than those in Pennsylvania who recently did that to two Congressmen who were pretend Democrats but voted against their president and their party on major issues.
They had to be searched in case they were pretend journalists hiding a gun behind their backs".
The men who were captured on camera killing a policeman outside the Charlie Hebdo offices were "pretend Muslims", the victim's brother has said.
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"We were pretending to be Sunni mujahideen.
"I thought you were pretending to be asleep".
His captors soon were pretending to be Mr. Schrier online.
The police, he thought, were pretending to be nice.
"They were pretending to look at the singing", revealed Fey.
Except that this is pretend.
and tell them it is "pretend" tea.
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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.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com