At election time a few politicians (from both parties) pretend to care, pretend to like pork rinds, pretend to be on the working class's side — but it's mostly baloney.
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And we pretend to kayak and we pretend to be really interested in some philanthropy.
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You can pretend to be me, you can pretend to be like me, but you're not.
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You know, I never saw a person pretend to be your friend and pretend to care about your well being.
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Some writers "pretend to be more lovable than they are and some pretend to be less," he told Ms. Lee.
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It was sort of a dream back then, where you pretend to be this superhero, you pretend to do all these things you couldn't do.
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"Children can pretend to be a salesman, wrap themselves in Senegalese fabrics, smell spices, roll a rug or pretend to fish in Zanzibar," Ms. Martin said.
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There's no need to pretend to be happy with choices like these, and there's no need to pretend to be happy in general, which is what brings us to this week's One Video pick: a Paramore video about how women are expected to pretend to be happy.
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For example, one player could pretend to throw a fastball and the other player could pretend to hit it with characters on the screen mimicking the actions.
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"We put the build in front of a bunch of people who pretend to be press and pretend to write reviews about it," said the ID Software employee.
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And if Trump isn't going to even pretend to be vetting his sources and fact-checking his arguments, then the press isn't going to pretend to believe what he's saying.
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They sit there and pretend to look busy, pretend to be careful as they work as a cashier at the student union, or to stock shelves when there's nothing to do.
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"There's a saying that 'in LA, the poor pretend to be rich; and in SF, the rich pretend to be poor' and it's completely spot-on," said Quora user Li Xuo.
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I asked her if it's strange to watch these other women pretend to be her, and she said that she has spent her whole career watching other women pretend to be her.
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The dancers pretend to be tiki warriors, and when the chief, in parting, bids us officially welcome to "the land of happy people," we pretend to believe that such a place exists.
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XpresSpa does not pretend to be a palace of luxury.
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You pretend to be cool with people, but you're not.
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It wasn't easy for me to (pretend to) hurt her.
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There are troll accounts which pretend to be someone else.
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They're kufar -- infidels -- who pretend to be Muslims, but aren't.
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I wasn't prepared to pretend to be anything I wasn't.
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He doesn't know details about policy, and doesn't pretend to.
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They didn't care about facts and didn't pretend to care.
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I'm not even going to pretend to understand this one.
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You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher.
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Plainclothes policemen pretend to take selfies, while filming café gossip.
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Suddenly, you didn't have to pretend to like watching Kerrang!
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Jozea and Day pretend to listen but make no promises.
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Often, we pretend to be happy as a social lubricant.
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Studios can no longer afford to pretend to be oblivious.
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Masri does not pretend to be immune from his subjects.
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"It was tough to pretend to like him," she said.
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Brian: Lemme pretend to be Tucker Carlson for a moment.
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You don't need to pretend to be your colleague's friend.
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The two men may pretend to enjoy a warm relationship.
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"Sometimes I would pretend to be asleep," Ms. Beck said.
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But it's not easy to pretend to be a bully.
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I can't pretend to know what the future will bring.
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I can't pretend to know what the future will bring.
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The other students onstage then pretend to sexually assault him.
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A bot would pretend to visit a website like CNN.
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The map wasn't science; it didn't even pretend to be.
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She heard them pretend to be gay as a joke.
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"Young Radicals" does not pretend to scholarly authority or rigor.
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I can't pretend to care much about any of it.
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It cannot pretend to be anything other than it is.
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And Netflix doesn't aspire, or pretend, to have everything, either.
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You just need to pretend to be an important person.
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I won't pretend to be sure I've gotten everything exactly right.
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Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved.
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"feelings" to pretend to an elevated, rational position and minimize someone
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We don't have all the answers, and we don't pretend to.
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I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
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It's cool to pretend to like grime more than ever now.
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He pretends to be pious, and white evangelicals pretend to care.
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First of all, I can't pretend to be in your shoes.
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Even better, it doesn't pretend to offer easy answers or platitudes.
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For that pay, many employees do not even pretend to work.
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How many of you pretend to be busy, that's your move?
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Can you pretend to look at me and be like 'Yes!
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On the other hand, who would pretend to like this shit?
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All you have to do is pretend to be an animal.
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" Leland wishes he'd continued: "No, we should pretend to be crows!
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Two participants pretend to be deceased as part of a simulation.
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Sun's going to have to pretend to be a waiter, though.
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She writes: I don't even pretend to speak for all women.
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I can't pretend to have an answer about stuff like that.
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I'm not going to ever pretend to be coy about that.
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"Bernie and I can pretend to get married," she remembers thinking.
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Or they pretend to be sick until they elicit a response.
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She's not a personal-finance expert and doesn't pretend to be.
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But then again, Shiki doesn't pretend to be a ramen house.
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Will Debbie 'pretend' to get drunk and do a freaky dance?
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Enthusiastic consent is where you should also pretend to like it.
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I pretend to be on the phone or listening to music.
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They pretend to be human by asking for a cease-fire.
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I pretend to be cool on social media, but I'm not.
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No mom is — and we shouldn't have to pretend to be.
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I am a woman, and I don't pretend to be otherwise.
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So, the mega fan decided to pretend to be Ross Geller.
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This casserole isn't trying to pretend to be something it's not.
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I wish I knew, so I could pretend to not care.
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Don't be overly charitable Or at least don't pretend to be.
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I won't even pretend to guess what she's going to say.
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But Ms Rollins does not pretend to be a fortune-teller.
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It doesn't pretend to prescribe easy solutions to such complicated problems.
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In shocking fashion, Kavanaugh didn't even pretend to have judicial temperament.
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Tolentino doesn't pretend to be outside of the stories she's telling.
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I'm not going to pretend to understand what you went through.
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"I don't pretend to know how all this ends," he said.
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"Y'all kids can't just pretend to run," the coach had said.
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Munchausen is when you make things up, pretend to be sick.
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They pretend to be talking in metaphors when they're in fact lying.
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New sexting tip: when in doubt, pretend to be in an Ikea.
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"I don't pretend to be a venture capitalist, or something," he says.
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To even pretend to care seems like a colossal waste of time.
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That way, I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
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The Saudis pretend to be our friend, but sadly they are not.
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You're picky as hell, even though you pretend to be so flexible.
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And we'll pretend to love tennis too, if that's what it takes.
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There's a lot of science fiction that doesn't pretend to be realistic.
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Her job is to pretend to be people she's not — i.e. acting.
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I feel like that's a fun thing to pretend to be doing.
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There's people who pretend to be depressed to party and get attention.
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Others pretend to be investing, but are actually just moving their assets.
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So why not take this opportunity to pretend to be, say, royalty?
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You just pretend to care when it gets round to that time.
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He just steps into her arms, and slowly, they pretend to dance.
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I don't pretend to agree with every plank of our party platform.
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Brands work hard to pretend to be your friends on social media.
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Like the class act he is, he can't even pretend to GAF.
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Wear this one so you can pretend to know about Japanese culture.
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I don't pretend to know the exact mechanism by which this happened.
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It's not an aggressive anti-sex stance like incels pretend to have.
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We simply aren't part of the story and shouldn't pretend to be.
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No one can even pretend to guess at his name or theirs.
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Real people don't commit when they strongly disagree; they only pretend to.
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So, the criminals can easily pretend to be one of these companies.
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I don't pretend to know if such a presidency will ever happen.
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"She can't pretend to be a moderate after those votes," Cunningham said.
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Joanna is actually going to pretend to be Kara for our outro.
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"I can't pretend to understand the details," says Tessa's co-chief executive.
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We don't pretend to have all the answers, and we're not perfect.
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I don't pretend to have an answer to that in the book.
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"We don't pretend to be a millennial media company," Mr. Schneps said.
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Chameleon-like, both pretend to believe whatever is necessary to be popular.
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"Life's too short to pretend to be somebody you're not," he says.
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Only a truly villainous person would even pretend to hurt this child.
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Others pretend to be investing but are actually just moving their assets.
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I can't even pretend to "forget" what those other lyrics could be.
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I&aposm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.
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We do not pretend to know how this presidency will play out.
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They are the victims of criminal enterprises that only pretend to govern.
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No, Ruth shouldn't have to pretend to enjoy Tom's lechery, she says.
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Donald Trump doesn't even pretend to speak to or for all Americans.
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I won't pretend to have any type of special insight on Dahlen.
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I will not pretend to know what they're all going to be.
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We did a couple of theatrical videos, such as having one person pretend to be a giant while they chasing the rest of the group, or having the group pretend to walk on a tightrope between two shoelaces.
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And it's not like we can all pretend to be Elsa from Frozen.
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Or sink into a comfy chair and pretend to shoot up a nightclub.
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You have to, but I don't pretend to be an expert in that.
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So, one day I'll pretend to be the kid and write his essay.
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Or they are broke, but they are going to pretend to be rich.
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However, the actors are not from the region, and don't pretend to be.
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I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.
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Still, most people only pretend to eat the cereal out of the pothole.
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Russia does not pretend to offer the world an attractive ideology or vision.
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Randall has a face that only a PTA mom could pretend to love.
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We fact check everything we say, but we don't pretend to be neutral.
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Why do the work when you can just pretend to do the work?
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You can't pretend to not know the ending if you know the ending.
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If you want to get rich on Ebay, pretend to be a man.
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Damon had the kind of strength I only pretend to have on screen.
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Ah well — I'm not a real adult and I don't pretend to be.
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He got to honk the horn and pretend to be driving a semi!
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I would really pretend to be somebody else as I was doing it.
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Are you saying Trump could hire people to pretend to be Russian hackers?
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I am not cool, nor do I pretend to know what is cool.
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Lego is the one toy adults pretend to outgrow, but never truly do.
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But they can also drink craft beer and pretend to be a sommelier.
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Don't pretend to liberate them just so you can criticise their beliefs. 68.
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Even more refreshingly, The Good Place doesn't pretend to have all the answers.
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This was their chance to pretend to give a shit about climate change.
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"I don't pretend to be the only one who created Sam," he added.
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They had to pretend to be Hank and make something he would make.
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For once in your life, at least pretend to know what empathy is.
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You guys pretend to be this edgy fucking company, but you know what?
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This strategy is a fairy tale we can't even pretend to believe in.
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When it comes to Congress, I do not pretend to be an expert.
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Turner didn't pretend to know why crime in Rockford went up or down.
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Why scold something that doesn't even pretend to be high or even middlebrow?
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She tries to convince him that they could pretend to be other people.
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We pretend to totally remember someone who claims we met at some party.
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I tend bar specifically so I don't have to pretend to like anything.
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"We're not solving that problem and we don't pretend to," said Mr. Staff.
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No one with an appreciation for life would pretend to be so debilitated.
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You can't pretend to be good so hard that you actually become good.
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No, I do think Google is more aggressive than they pretend to be.
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They hide in a rural black community and pretend to be black themselves.
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In fact, he gives her tips on how to pretend to be lowborn!
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During the replay, the students were instructed to pretend to be the referees.
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Today, I'm gonna do my show for her and pretend to interview Cher.
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They abrogate their responsibility like the 2500-year-old they pretend to be.
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How many times do we pretend to one another with a Colgate smile?
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In order for this to succeed, we couldn't just pretend to be confident.
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"I don't pretend to be speaking for everyone 70-plus," Patrick's text read.
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I won't pretend to have figured out all the answers in two days.
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He does not pretend to offer a journey that every reader will appreciate.
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He was a fraud, trying to pretend to be someone he was not.
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I pretend to be visiting relatives or taking a shift at the market.
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Increasingly, the press doesn't even pretend to treat Trump like a normal candidate.
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It does not even pretend to create a true merit-based immigration policy.
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Keiko can pretend to be in a relationship and so not be pitied.
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Who will laugh rapaciously and pretend to be a pirate when you're gone?
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Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we're not helpless?
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I can't pretend to have kept up with her career much after Rainbow.
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It's been less than 200 years since slavery ended and guess what— it's still too soon for fake auctions that pretend to sell human beings, and it will always be too soon for fake auctions that pretend to sell human beings.
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They don't pretend to be anything other than doomed, but they carry on anyway.
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I don't pretend to know the depths of what you are feeling right now.
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As someone who doesn't know anyone involved, you sure pretend to know a lot.
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It also means it's easy for brands to pretend to be something they're not.
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Look, I'm not going to pretend to be anything other than a bandwagoner here.
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But no matter how successful she is, Ilana can't pretend to be someone else.
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They broke up privately, but she agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend publicly.
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"I hate films when I have to pretend to be pretty," Ms. Gainsbourg said.
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"Room service came and I had to pretend to be watching tennis," she tweeted.
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WATTERS: Well, you don&apost have to bend over backwards -- pretend to be fair.
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Each woman's circumstances are different; we can't pretend to walk in anyone else's shoes.
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She wasn't going to pretend to be something different or put on any airs.
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But she tells them she has to pretend to everybody else that she isn't.
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Ricardo Rossello to resign, it's been hard to pretend to conduct business as usual.
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"They have to pretend to be two different people," he said of his colleagues.
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So my first ruse is a simple one: Pretend to be a flower deliveryman.
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We can't pretend to know what exactly is behind Bush's poor health this week.
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WALTER ISAACSON: When you interact with them, can you pretend to be somebody else?
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Try as I might, I could never pretend to be a professional ice skater.
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Scammers usually pretend to be a reputable technology company like Microsoft, Apple or Dell.
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They're also about men who pretend to be something they're not, which Petersen hates.
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"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform," he said.
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It's not the day to hold back or pretend to be someone you're not.
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Matthew congratulates her for calling out Billy, and father and daughter pretend to box.
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To excel at this, they pretend to be a human family named the Solomons.
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"I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy," she tells Delevingne.
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"But I couldn't pretend to be at work for days on end," he said.
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Unlike almost every other president, Trump doesn't even pretend to serve the wider public.
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Women like you love to get Groupon plastic surgery and pretend to be twenty.
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God dammit, you think I would pretend to write cookbooks if I didn't cook?
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Two Brisbane men pretend to be professional golfers at the North Korean Golf Open.
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It moves confidently, that is, until it can no longer pretend to do so.
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Now they pretend to be shocked that those elements have taken over their parties.
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It's a big, complicated idea, and Mr. Robot doesn't pretend to have easy answers.
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The duke and Claire pretend to not recognize one another, which is mutually beneficial.
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Maybe, maybe not—I'm not going to pretend to be an expert Bruce-ologist.
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She's not going to pretend to be something she's not for us regular people.
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She would pretend to be pregnant, wearing a suicide belt underneath a maternity dress.
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You know, people that actually get things done, not just pretend to in costume.
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You don't have to pretend to like this man, or approve of his conduct.
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Why would you pretend to have an illness that is not approved for compensation?
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This also allows people to pretend to be wealthier than they are, of course.
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"When They See Us" does not pretend to make up for that lost time.
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PRETEND TO BE YOUR DOCTOR One of the dumps even includes individual victims' doctors.
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"I'm outraged that they pretend to buy me with tricky offers," Mr. Padrino said.
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Would I pretend to be neutral, they wanted to know, or even pro-life?
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We don't need to pretend to ourselves and others that we don't have needs.
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"I don't pretend to have the answers," he told The Financial Times in July.
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Pretend to be frightened by a balloon popping or a child squealing with glee.
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The choice of these seven does not pretend to be representative of contemporary Russians.
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Occasionally, he'd accept tentatively, which would make her laugh and pretend to be upset.
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She can't say what it is, but she can pretend to pluck the strings.
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Some used car dealers pretend to be private sellers on Craigslist to avoid regulations.
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People will pretend to be your friend, then gossip about you behind your back.
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It is an Arduino compatible ATtiny85 system that can pretend to be USB devices.
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So it's just really, really, really sad that somebody would pretend to be me.
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Their bias is so flagrant they don&apost even pretend to hide it anymore.
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"Don't try and pretend to be something that you're really not, right?" he added.
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It requires male priests to be celibate, or at least pretend to be celibate.
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"They pretend to be strong in front of me," she said of her daughters.
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"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform," Thiel added.
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When you cook the books you shouldn't pretend to be surprised by the results.
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I'm not one of those people who pretend to have objectivity in my analysis.
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But the good thing about how we are on the podcast is, or what we talk about on the podcast, is we don't pretend to be journalists, we don't pretend to be nonpartisan... [laughs] I don't think anyone would … You're super partisan.
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Ruscoe doesn't pretend to know how cost-effective Obamacare is and assumes it requires tweaking.
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But what good would a PokéBall be if couldn't at least pretend to throw it?
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And if they pretend to not know about it, they're not telling you the truth.
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While there, they stumble upon an elaborate plot to pretend to land on the moon.
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Instead, the pair had to go cheek to cheek and pretend to kiss the air.
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It's really easy to pretend to be something you're not when it comes to money.
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So you have to talk while hiding the soup, and then pretend to throw up.
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But I can't pretend to understand, on a visceral level, life as a Black woman.
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You can pretend to shoot off a fireball, summon a storm, or even restore health.
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At least then you could pretend to feel smugly superior as everyone around you panics.
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As kids, American Jews often pretend to hide from the Nazis during our imaginary games.
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Sometimes I only pretend to do the shot, but most nights, I end up drunk.
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Think it's funny to pretend to dive bomb a crowd of people with your drone?
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Those strange people will eat local delicacies (sometimes on sticks) and pretend to like it.
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Characters will speak my name or pretend to have heard of something that I've done.
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They often pretend to be hikers, sometimes camping out for weeks while gathering the timber.
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Oh, I don't think it's truly scientific, but when did it pretend to become scientific?
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And managers incentivized to pretend to meet unrealistic performance goals began to game the system.
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Many VPN companies pretend to care about your privacy but you can't know for sure.
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I'm still learning and careful not to pretend to be that guy who knows everything.
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Caleb confronts Mona about being A, and Mona doesn't even pretend to not be involved.
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It took an ever larger cocktail of drugs to pretend to be happy and stable.
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Democrats and Republicans pretend to be in opposition to each other but they're really not.
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Sometimes I use email or phone calls to pretend to be someone I am not.
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He's not an economist, and for the most part, he doesn't pretend to be one.
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I can't pretend to be inside the president's head and know how much he understands.
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Each country in turn has something that Mr Moore will pretend to be flabbergasted at.
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"I can't even pretend to know the pressures that Dr. Frieden is under," she said.
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I don't pretend to know when things will improve, but I know I'll be ready.
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If I can pretend to be a US general, unwitting people will respect me immediately.
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Have you ever wanted to pretend to read a book while spying on other people?
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I won't pretend to know if that's sustainable, but it is kind of weird. 2.
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When the owners come to the door, pretend to just not understand what homeownership is.
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I thought, 'Oh, wow, well at least I don't have to pretend to like this.
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That most Scandinavian of stores, where you pretend to live in their kitchens and bathrooms.
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His campaign strategy was never to pretend to have a feel-your-pain magic touch.
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They talk about Mr. Trump even when they pretend to be speaking about something else.
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As a low-level arithmophobic, I won't pretend to have followed Farid's every mathematical leap.
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But I also think that, if you're weak, it's childish to pretend to be strong.
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"I don't even want to pretend to be on that side right now," he said.
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People imitate a classic scene from the movie "Matilda," when they pretend to have telekinesis.
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I don't pretend to have Amy's extraordinary gift with words and wordplay, but here goes.
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Mr. Cook is an amiable presenter, but he doesn't pretend to have Mr. Jobs's magnetism.
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Remember when Republicans used to pretend to care about crafting the people's business in sunlight?
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This ability to play, to pretend, to parody isn't just a matter of professional training.
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There's far less pressure for people to pretend to be fine with you being butch.
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And much of this crisis is focussed on the poor, whom politicians pretend to serve.
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"—the thrust of the joke being "lol patients sometimes pretend to be sick for attention.
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Companies that hold those assets receive inquiries from fraudsters who pretend to represent the deceased.
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David Duke used to have to winkingly pretend to be a little bit less racist?
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Her ideas are nuanced, and she doesn't pretend to have easy solutions to complex problems.
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So, if I didn't mind, could I pretend to be my boyfriend's brother's girlfriend instead?
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I was this little punky kid trying to pretend to know what I was doing.
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The shapeshifters pretend to be drowning, and turn on their rescuers once they are 'saved'.
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We're not going to pretend to be able to give good advice in this instance.
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So people would come and pretend to be Boy George and stuff, it was funny.
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The idea that one should lie about these data, or pretend to be convinced by bad arguments that are politically correct, or worse that it's okay to malign people, or even destroy their reputations, if they won't pretend to be convinced by bad arguments.
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"He doesn't pretend to be anything he's not," says Ed Henry, a state senator for Alabama.
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In a typical "business email compromise," (BEC), the bad guys pretend to be a company employee.
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But generally, they pretend to represent any trusted entity, including major banks or credit card companies.
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I've finished my second lysine-dope smoothie and can't even pretend to nurse the dregs anymore.
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Hackers pretend to be a trusted network and then can watch anything you do while connected.
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But with an at-home sauna, you don't have to pretend to like the gym anymore.
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And kids, if you pretend to be someone else, don't do it right under their nose.
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He could not pretend to be Donald Trump — wildly unscripted, crass, impossible to ignore or forget.
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He thinks religion is a secret handshake, that he can pretend to be a faith person.
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The aptly-named Beer Tie doesn't pretend to be anything more than possibly mankind's greatest innovation.
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Some extensions will let you pretend to be Safari, meaning you can then stream the event.
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That's not fair to the film, which doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is.
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Or, you could do as the female moorland hawker dragonfly does, and pretend to be dead.
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Young kids will like, pretend to have YouTube channels, and they're being raised to be seen.
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Some children pretend to be incompetent so they won't have to out themselves as actually incompetent.
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Christian Bale sounds like I do when I pretend to be Michael Caine reading Harry Potter.
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WALTER ISAACSON: And so you will engage, pretend to be somebody else, try to gather information?
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He does not pretend to be a saint, but he is ferociously loyal to his people.
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In one common scam, criminals recruit Uber drivers to pretend to take them on a ride.
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Power, to her credit, didn't pretend to have all the answers to these fundamental structural problems.
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But that's a ridiculous notion—that someone would pretend to be nice by doing nice things.
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Anyone out there with a Vette want to pretend to be Tom Cruise for a minute?
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No athlete can pretend to have shorter limbs or a lack of sensation in their body.
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They can pretend to understand but they just don't know how magical those years were, man.
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In case he is listening you take out your cell phone, pretend to make a call.
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They sometimes pretend to brush your hair, give you a massage, or simulate an eye test.
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Yet I couldn't even pretend to get upset since they were things I normally do, too.
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It was easiest to put it, or even to pretend to put it, in God's hands.
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When things at school were particularly rough, Chloe would pretend to be sick to stay home.
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It was so obvious the witnesses were lying that I couldn't even pretend to be upset.
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It was another moment of truth: should I pretend to be the husband or come clean?
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Claire ends up under his "protection" as she continues to pretend to be a kidnapped widow.
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"It was Thanos sending a small army to pretend to try to stop them," said McFeely.
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If you pretend to respect opinions that you know are dishonest, you yourself are being dishonest.
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I pretend to believe everything they tell me, especially when they conjure up a fictional identity.
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I will not pretend to understand the actual mechanics of how this works, but it does.
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Take solace that there is a sport where Finnish people pretend to be horses: http://bit.
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But at least we have a few more days to pretend to look for the truth.
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Many attacks on the Parkland students do not even pretend to focus on issues or substance.
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Her brother Aamir would take a couple of bites and pretend to be dying — of happiness.
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Cool kids who pretend to have fun because everyone else does, but secretly feel empty inside!
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In the meantime, Sophia must merely pretend to be pregnant while Maria pretends not to be.
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She stays in a room so she can pretend to feed it and give it comfort.
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I don't pretend to know precisely what happened in the various incidents Kavanaugh is accused of.
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Pretend to know some other stranger and ask if he or she would walk with you.
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I don't pretend to know the answer, but I do think it's worth some humble reflection.
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"Feed" lets sympathetic readers pretend to live, for almost 80 pages, inside Pico's charismatic, uneasy mind.
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" Ansari also mocked Trump supporters, saying they "don't have to pretend to not be racist anymore.
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"Guys, be quiet and pretend to enjoy the fucking show," Youssef said, and the audience applauded.
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"He doesn't pretend to be a Bible-banging evangelical," Ms. Nance, an evangelical Christian herself, added.
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I'd watched people burst into tears, climb into one another's laps, and pretend to be God.
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Friends had even asked her if a model had been hired to pretend to be her.
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He would run back and forth and pretend to pick his nose to make me laugh.
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It also benefited from Thompson's banter with guests he could hardly pretend to be impressed by.
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True, Democrats care about these families — but Republicans at least pretend to care about them, too.
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A lot of the musicians who come from here pretend to not have come from here.
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"Every time I serve the locals, I pretend to be more Mexican than Kenyan," he said.
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I don't pretend to know Kaine well enough to say whether he should serve as president.
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The one guy who couldn't even pretend to connect with Rory on an emotional or intellectual level?
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Of course, I have built enough experience and intuition that I sort of pretend to be naive.
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Maybe when you & your husband actually practice what you pretend to be, you can say this again.
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He loves to pretend to go on adventures and look through his binoculars at things far away.
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And then the next day I'll pretend to be the mom and write the parent essay, too.
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You know, Democrats win when they&aposre moderate or pretend to be moderate, and they get it.
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Some pretend to be from the IRS, others come from a phone number very similar to yours.
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In this mini rom-com, though, Nadia and John have to pretend to be husband and wife.
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Like when young children want to divert a threat, they think they can pretend to be invisible.
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They pretend to have folded and taken the government's buy-out, then wait for their father's reaction.
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Meanwhile, you don't have to pretend to love hanging out with your so's annoying former frat bros.
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"It was pretty easy to pretend to be enamored by her," Mara told Interview Magazine in November.
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"You're gonna take a load of people, and they're gonna pretend to be cats," Corden, 41, noted.
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Project Management "Project management" is one of those vague skills that most people only pretend to understand.
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"But when you personally experience what happened — witness it — you can pretend to be ignorant no more."
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At least I can pretend to check out British girls now with this #DeltaDatingWall mural in Brooklyn.
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Most commonly, it's used to prosecute cases involving attackers who pretend to be a victim's intimate partner.
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The vigilantes pretend to be underage children and lure adults to meet the fake minors for sex.
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On North Korea, you said this past week that the North Koreans like to pretend to negotiate.
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Then he asked my friend to pretend to be unable to understand & put it in the clip.
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Viewers who pretend to HATE spoilers out of some kind of "loyalty to the narrative" or whatever.
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You could even board an enemy pirate ship, pretend to be friendly, and then steal their treasure.
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Meanwhile, Lyrsa can't even be bothered to pretend to ally with Angelina, when Angelina comes to her.
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The person I had to pretend to be was trying to be traditional, trying to fit in.
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How is the police force SO bad that Elliot can just pretend to be a police officer?
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In doing so, however, Ishiguro has also inadvertently shown how easy it is to pretend to listen.
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Others pretend to be Indian Muslims, to take advantage of the warmer welcome Pakistan accords such people.
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But GJS' Geio doesn't pretend to be anything other than a robot designed for make-believe combat.
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It's not easy to pretend to play a real guitar, while also trying to work the mic.
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Republicans might pretend to look the other way, but these ties to a foreign regime are disturbing.
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At drama school, they'd done an exercise where you had to pretend to be on an iceberg.
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Many posted images implying how easy it is to pretend to be dead, and then wake up.
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Hell, he may buy his own grocery store just so he can pretend to be a cashier.
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Anti-choice Republicans no longer even pretend to respect the law or the women that it protects.
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" "I'm not going to even pretend to defend them," Ryan said, adding they should be "absolutely disavowed.
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After two years of Trump-era award shows, however, no one can convincingly pretend to be surprised.
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We pretend to be friendly with people who we know hold only their own interests at heart.
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Cable news networks, which pretend to respect the reserve of other ex-presidents, will eat it up.
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I won't pretend to be surprised that yoga technology, for the most part, is not for me.
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I don't want to pay you by the hour, and you have to pretend to like me.
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He then proceeded to live the dream and pretend to honk the horn and drive the truck.
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"He would pretend to exercise — I think he just went there to take showers," Mr. Prado said.
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The phrase we had to use for our English name actually translates to 'pretend to be called.
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And therefore, girls feel they must let boys come on their face and pretend to like it.
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Ocasio-Cortez doesn't pretend to take the moral high ground or strive for a clinical, prosecutorial demeanor.
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It used bots — computer programs that pretend to be people — to steal hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Is it tricky to pretend to use psychic powers or react to monsters that aren't really there?
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I'm not pretending that I am this fighter on the streets, and I don't pretend to that.
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I didn't have to hide away a part of myself, or pretend to be something I wasn't.
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I will not pretend to have arrived at what I think the right answers to that are.
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Llorente is not quick — and would not pretend to be quick — but he is a sizable obstacle.
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"Some people are born to suffer and some people are born to pretend to suffer," Perry said.
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First, he had her lie on a bed in a bathing suit and pretend to be sleeping.
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I had to answer the phone and pretend to be her secretary and I could live there.
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"You're gonna take a load of people, and they're gonna pretend to be cats," Corden, 41, began.
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The painting portrays a time when large segments of the country didn't even pretend to be inclusive.
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Please don&apost pretend to hold up Italy&aposs Leaning Tower of Pisa when you&aposre there.
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I asked him how he feels about people who pretend to be veterans when they are not.
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I pretend to be very interested in his toy, and we play-fight for about 20 minutes.
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I don't care about sports, so I won't pretend to now for the sake of exchanging pleasantries.
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Yep, it's the time of the year where they all pretend to be relatable by wearing jeans.
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At one point, fake Taliban pop up from behind rocks and pretend to opened fire on us.
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Moreover, mandatory minimums do not even pretend to reflect an offender's culpability or role in the offense.
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And he pulled out his cellphone to speak to someone, or to pretend to speak to someone.
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And people who pretend to have it all figured out tend not to make the best leaders.
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I'm just a high school student, and I do not pretend to have all of the answers.
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This was the time for a populist, or at least someone who could pretend to be one.
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That way, they can hide their continued betrayal of the constituents whose interests they pretend to represent.
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In the opening of the 1988 movie "Big," which Yankees pitcher does Josh Baskin pretend to be?
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So I'm not going to pretend to be surprised that Marco Rubio took issue with the speech.
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If we're doomed to toil away until we die, we may as well pretend to like it.
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Yep, it's the time of the year where they all pretend to be relatable by wearing jeans.
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Why do we have to pretend to be sorry when we have nothing to be sorry about?
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Diamante's 210,210 inhabitants are obsessed with peperoncino, or at least they pretend to be for the tourists.
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That said, I don't pretend to know what is truly in the heart of the American voter.
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Lord's main defense doesn't pretend to be about principled conservatism or an intellectual defense of Trump's ideas.
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He would get sick sometimes, and I'd pretend to be him so we could still earn the purse.
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"I don't pretend to be anything but the new image of the Florida Man, these days," Hyden said.
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"I'd say the transition from 'pretend' to 'real' is one I'm familiar with," he told me over email.
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But having Ryan Gosling pretend to be angry at Brad Pitt for getting more lines as a presenter?
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At one point, Karen, the audience member, had to straddle Gosling's back and pretend to break his arm.
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In "Grandfathered," at 8:30, Sara asks Jimmy to pretend to be her boyfriend at an ex's party.
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LGBT refugees claim to have seen people collecting money under a false pretense: They pretend to be gay.
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Too many politicians pretend to believe companies are luring people to drive cars without giving them real jobs.
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Reality isn't real anymore but a highly curated photo feed of who we want to pretend to be.
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"Damon had the kind of strength I only pretend to have on screen," Evans, 22018, wrote on Twitter.
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You don't even run for president if you want everybody to be forced to pretend to like you.
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The best and worst thing about the internet is that anyone can pretend to be anyone they want.
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So I slow things down and tell her I'm just tired and pretend to sort of pass out.
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"They pretend to be for the people, but it's always the poor who end up suffering," he says.
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"I don't know what issues West does or doesn't have; nor do I pretend to know," Belton writes.
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TWD doesn't often pretend to be more than a fun way to get heartbroken over a character's demise.
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However, he's not okay with other people who pretend to have service dogs who aren't the real thing.
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Did you ever swap meds with other patients or pretend to swallow your pills to trick a nurse?
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You can pretend to hate Max Martin's hooks, or you can sing along and screw up the words.
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It would be the height of hypocrisy for me to pretend to be part of his inaugural celebration.
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It's obviously dishonest to pay random people to pretend to protest and, if true, would destroy their credibility.
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If one is Teffi, one does not pretend to know what she did not know at the time.
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Everyone is passionate about their field of work — or they at least pretend to be in their application.
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But it's also crazy: Things are changing so quickly that we can't pretend to have all the answers.
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Usually, aggressive mimicry has the predator pretend to be someone else's prey, fooling victims into becoming their meals.
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The actress said she "freaked out," calling a friend to come over and pretend to be her boyfriend.
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Likeable leaders don't puff themselves up or pretend to be something they're not, because they don't have to.
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He didn't actually pretend to receive the news he quickly shared with everyone – and that's just Improv 101.
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Really anyone can pretend to be a cab driver for a night and get into a taxi line.
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"You know I couldn't invite you, I had to pretend to be plastic," is the line in question.
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On TikTok, this sentiment fueled a meme in which people pretend to flush their AirPods down the toilet.
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Why is there an entire movie where The Rock will pretend to be an old, whiny Danny DeVito?
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Or maybe we will both pretend to like jazz and end up drunkenly dancing at a jazz club?
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Who doesn't want to pretend to be Bruce Banner or Tony Stark and save the world from Thanos?
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How can Republicans like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, pretend to be helping the middle class?
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I do not pretend to have predicted it exactly, but I think we understood generally what was happening.
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From $329 Hotels that pretend to be dog friendly yet charge extortionate fees are my literal pet peeve.
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I am not a medical professional, and I will not pretend to know what is truly happening here.
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Those restaurants became a kind of theater where he could pretend to be a person that he wasn't.
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Mr. Dietz does not deny that some people pretend to need an animal when they merely want one.
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She knows she doesn't have access to the authentic historical Jane Austen, and she doesn't pretend to try.
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As in past public appearances that summer, he told her to smile and pretend to be in love.
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Even very dishonest politicians don't routinely pretend to hold the opposite of their party's position on key issues.
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You jump off things, pretend to fly, put towels on your neck, and do all these silly things.
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Time to pretend to be busy for a little bit before I can justify going to get breakfast.
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"I know it's not against the rules to pretend to play someone that's a family member," they wrote.
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"He loved to look at you and pretend to shoot with guns, guns with his hands," she said.
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I don't think life was particularly easy for her, but it's certainly fun to pretend to be her!
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Nor does it look awesome that NBC News paid Chelsea Clinton $600,000 to pretend to be a journalist.
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I want to lose it; I want to be myself rather than the person I pretend to be.
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But if you need to pretend to give up—so that people will leave you alone—go ahead.
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The study showed that being forced to pretend to be happy over long periods of time affected health.
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"Mister Mellow" is by no means the aural tranquilizer that its lyrics and packaging pretend to call for.
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Fiennes, who, in the film, wears jeans and an ancient-Roman beard, did not pretend to be Darbyshire.
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I don't pretend to know which candidates Democratic voters think will have the best chance of beating Trump.
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Hardly enough time to give you anything conclusive, so I'm not going to pretend to do so here.
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They'll pretend to date each other so they earn more freedom to be with their real significant others.
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Many restaurateurs mythologize their cuisines and pretend to be doing better than they are, to stir up interest.
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During class, Bremer said Manning would jump around the classroom full of energy and pretend to be Batman.
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But that requires active listening, not just tick-box exercises that pretend to take our concerns on board.
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She can't be expected to know what actions government agencies need to take and she doesn't pretend to.
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The newest iteration of hydrocolloid acne patches is those that don't even pretend to hide what they are.
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But I'm proud of who I am, and I don't want to pretend to be someone I'm not.
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Maybe some of my comrades were more self-aware, or had less to pretend to or cover for.
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No. The storyline is laughably thin and does not pretend to be anything more than a serviceable premise.
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I don't pretend to be a political science major; I'm a guy who learned that stuff through music.
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There are all kinds of moments where I think I can pretend to be this or that artist.
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So why would someone want to pretend to be an inanimate object, especially an inanimate object that gets banged?
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They give each other funny hairstyles, push each other around in a wheelchair or pretend to bite each other.
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You can pretend to be someone else for a little while, but sooner or later you are just you.
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That's why they will pretend to repeal the Affordable Care Act but delay implementation until after the next election.
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She also tells me to wear SPF 50 daily and I pretend to think this is a reasonable request.
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"I'm just a high school student, and I do not pretend to have all of the answers," he wrote.
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He later admitted that he actually did wear blackface to pretend to be Michael Jackson in a dance competition.
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On the side against immigration we get a few vignettes of terror that pretend to paint a whole picture.
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Lil Yachty inspired this one, where you pretend to get into a car then zoom on out of there.
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Just remember: whenever you swing your huge axe at a dinosaur, a human had to pretend to be hurt.
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You had to pretend to be sad you couldn't join him on his second jump, but that wasn't difficult.
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These automated calls demand you "pay the IRS" a fine you don't owe or pretend to be tech support.
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She was to pretend to be a Chinese citizen belonging to an ethnic minority with cross-border cultural links.
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It doesn't skimp, it's not thinly sliced, and it doesn't pretend to be anything than its raw disgusting self.
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Goddammit, Sarah, I will not pretend to ride a sleigh just so you can put your wedding on Pinterest.
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With music playing in the background, the couple had a playful interaction in which they pretend to be cats.
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Their presence feels random, but in fact is reliable, the sort of thing you can pretend to happen upon.
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"We don't have all the answers and we don't pretend to," said Joe Hinrichs, president of Ford's automotive unit.
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Now all I can do is pretend to laugh, slide my card through the swiper, scribble on the receipt.
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The Secretary of Education-designate doesn't pretend to care about our poor children by making excuses on their behalf.
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Drones let us do cool things like take neat pictures from overhead views and pretend to be a pilot.
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Some have created fake versions of online accounting tools like QuickBooks, while others pretend to be tech support agents.
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As Bruce Wayne, he can hardly stop snarling long enough to pretend to be human at a social gathering.
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This guy is so fun and imaginative that he can pretend to play guitar and it's charming as shit!
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Now, thanks to a 3D video by the European Space Agency, you can pretend to be one of them.
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In this workshop, children pretend to be reporters during the age of Cervantes and figure out all his secrets.
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In other words, you could pretend to have won at various moments, even if you never landed a touch.
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That may sound unpleasant, but people absorb information better when they don't have to pretend to memorize bullet points.
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You can go to a hotel in the city that you live in and pretend to be a celebrity.
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Other scammers pretend to be affiliated with charitable organizations in order to scam military personnel out of their cash.
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I went to the woods and learned to pretend, to become vacant in the act of citizenry, to behave.
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Some Libras may go so far as to pretend to like something in bed when they actually hate it.
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Another described how she and her partner pretend to be total strangers, and how it keeps their relationship fresh.
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Refusing to accept my fate as a woman, I used my short haircut to pretend to be a boy.
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And during police questioning the officers did not even pretend to be interested in the documents they had seized.
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True to its essence, the very short book does not pretend to have more to say than it does.
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The director would pretend to catch the child, and the child would have to come up with a lie.
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He would call reporters and pretend to be a publicity agent for himself named John Barron or John Miller.
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My mother was an actress, which added another refraction: I grew up watching her pretend to be other people.
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For a split second I wondered if I could wait it out, perhaps pretend to sleep through the announcement.
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Now use 'whales breaching' in a sentence so you can pretend to your friends back home you saw something.
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You are rewarded for treating environments and encounters as a place to pretend to be rather than progressing through.
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So these two lawyers draw up a deal—they'll pretend to date when they're with their bosses and coworkers.
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Mr. Trump does not even pretend to care about the allegations of corruption against the two lawmakers in question.
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Oh sure, they pretend to like you, rubbing around your legs and purring until you produce the food bowl.
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When it comes to the White House corps, hate the players, but at least pretend to love the game.
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Katie Zechar was paid to pretend to work at a startup that wanted to impress a high-level executive.
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" Graham said, "I have made up my mind … I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.
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One thing I won't do is pretend to want to be with somebody, so I had to be honest.
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The objective from the Republicans and from President Donald Trump was to pretend to have taken those accusations seriously.
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I'm not sure that voters could be easily fooled by candidates who pretend to be what they are not.
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" As Flickinger didn't like to drink heavily, "I had to pretend to drink and act drunk the whole time.
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Often, they will pretend to be serving the demands of protesters, giving their coup the appearance of popular legitimacy.
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"That's one of the reasons why people love Joe Biden — is because he doesn't pretend to be perfect," Rep.
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You could not live in a relatively poor socialist kibbutz and pretend to be Donald Judd or Richard Serra.
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Soros is Jewish, and his father had him pretend to be Christian to escape being killed in the Holocaust.
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The first is the question of why rekcahxfb would pretend to be a multimillion-dollar hacker in the first place.
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When it comes to displeasure with the election results, iconic feminist Gloria Steinem didn't even pretend to quell her sentiments.
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Jolie would then pretend to catch them, and the child would have to lie about why they stole the money.
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Belfort, "The Wolf of Wall Street," persuaded Madden to pretend to own shares in an IPO that Belfort actually owned.
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These emergency plans I keep making in my head are one of the few things I can pretend to control.
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Trump has not tried to represent the nation as a whole and does not pretend to govern on everyone's behalf.
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If a young boy could pretend to be a brave general, what could a young girl imagine herself to be?
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I am by no means a great dancer, but it was fun to pretend to be one for an hour!
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He didn't even bother to pretend to reach out to Democrats, pursuing a wholly partisan strategy from the get-go.
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I say that I'll "sort it out," and then pretend to speak on the phone for at least ten minutes.
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With this pocketed T-shirt, you can pretend to have a set of little porglets with you at all times.
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I would pretend to host my own radio show and would write a 'newspaper' that I delivered to our neighbors.
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While I won't pretend to know all of your goals, there's a good chance you're looking to win with money.
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The app is currently featuring the #faketravel challenge for instance, in which users pretend to be on a luxurious vacation.
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If you want your earbuds to hang on your lobes and pretend to be a fashion statement, that's your decision.
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And of course, there's an Iron Throne where you can sit and pretend to rule Westeros with an iron fist.
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"To give that kind of money to his wife and still pretend to be Mr Clean, it's incredible," says Sandra.
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There's no better icebreaker than having to pretend to be someone you're not in front of a room of strangers.
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His faith is longstanding: as a boy, he would don a sheet after mass and pretend to be a priest.
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Before that, he blasted Floyd Mayweather's pal 50 Cent saying they are both broke bitches who pretend to have money.
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As Brisk posted on Twitter, all you need is a dome-like piece of foam, and pretend to be pregnant.
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No woman should ever have to pretend to like a guy when she doesn't, just to try and be popular.
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It isn't cheap, but doesn't pretend to be a discount wireless router offering like many other options on the market.
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Maybe she shouldn't show up in person, she said—perhaps she should pretend to be a therapist over the phone.
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Why Sophie would pretend to be Alice — there could be a hundred reasons, none ofwhich we can confirm as official.
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And now you ask me to pretend to be/empathize with a girl character who does the exact same bullshit?
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When I couldn't pretend to proofread any longer without seeming completely incompetent, I let my boss show me the software.
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So, can the mainstream media at least not pretend to be outraged and offended the next time progressives attack them?
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"You can't pretend to just normalize the nation after carrying out a 'coup,'" said Julio Borges, leader of the legislature.
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If we couldn't actually be a part of those worlds, then we could at least pretend to inhabit them online.
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" In that utopia, he says, "Technology may or may not pretend to sleep, but it would certainly let us sleep.
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And yet, neither of them can pretend to be anything but bored in a bizarre new video promoting Australia's ecosystem.
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I turn my knees away from her and pretend to pore over the file spread out in front of me.
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The three actresses, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Nance Williamson and Stacey Yen, never pretend to be men in the male roles.
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" And he added: "I'm not gonna mince my words and pretend to be a nice diplomatic guy, 'cause I'm not.
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My point being: different people like different shit and sometimes people pretend to like other people's shit because of romance.
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It's mostly noise and military slang with slo-mo sequenced arrangements that pretend to be something halfway fun or watchable.
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And sometimes, when you're just texting or something like that, people can pretend to be whoever they want to be.
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Sometimes, as a special treat, I let Beatrice stay up late and pretend to put makeup on her as well.
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Pretend to have a conversation, answer a question or give a 1-minute speech about what you had for lunch.
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Today's men's rights/bro-culture crowd doesn't pretend to be interested in taking their porn with a side of Picasso.
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I won't pretend to be more religious than the next person, nor am I afraid to call myself a Christian.
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Raines doesn't pretend to have the solution, but she's stepping up to fill an essential need in the coming weeks.
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Besides their desire for a better future, migrants such as Abbasi have another good reason to pretend to be Syrians.
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If they really wanted to stay in each other's company, they would go into the bush and pretend to hunt.
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The refreshing thing about Kinsey is that she doesn't pretend to be fearless when she's scared out of her wits.
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Vic turned up Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.," a song we pretend to love ironically but we really just love.
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Reforming Medicare to protect it for future generations won't be easy, and I don't pretend to have all the answers.
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" Graham said in an interview with CNN Saturday that he is "not trying to pretend to be a fair juror.
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So he has to continue to pretend to be this nerd even though he has the ability to defend himself.
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It's one thing to give patients a placebo pill to swallow; it's much harder to pretend to implant a stent.
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Once Donald Trump learns to pretend to love animals, he can move on to pretending to love the human race.
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They pretend to be interested in order to lure Walt to the white supremacist compound and kill him that night.
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Gail: Or at least whether he or she is sensitive enough to pretend to understand the problems of ordinary people.
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"We didn't want to pretend to be experts on gay and lesbian couples," said Warren in a 2016 CNN article.
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"One of our principles is that we speak like a human, but we never pretend to be one," he says.
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While we can and should be helpful to the peace process, we cannot pretend to be without allegiance and bias.
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The joke of "Toy Story" is that Woody and his buddies only pretend to be inanimate when people are around.
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I wouldn't pretend to guess how divinity interacted with human DNA, but that's the mystery the Virgin Birth hints at.
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"Don't pretend to be having an elevated discussion of public policy when you're conducting character assassination," she wrote in Politico.
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It didn't pretend to be anything fancy, but it packed a punch as far as fast-food chicken sandwiches go.
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So last week I went to Neiman Marcus to pretend to shop and there was a "sales rack" of fur coats.
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I'm even the star of one of our in-house stock photoshoots, wherein I pretend to do all kinds of drugs.
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I'm a 29-year-old grown-up (well, at least I pretend to be one on weekdays) living in New York.
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Such a contract would be a good way to separate true worker-friendly candidates from those who pretend to support workers.
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"I wish I had the ability to pretend to be mysterious," she says, tugging at the collar of puffy black parka.
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The Ass Doctor and I have an ongoing childish game: we pretend to be amateur sleuths, like we're twelve years old.
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We all have a list of movies we pretend to have seen — books we're too embarrassed to admit we haven't read.
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Do you just go on Twitter like "Hey, anybody wanna pretend to be afraid of black people for this music video"?
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Why it matters: I'm not an expert in French politics and won't pretend to understand all the dynamics at play here.
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Should you pretend to be dead in hopes of a gentle mauling, or scream at the bear to scare it off?
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I don't pretend to understand Kanye West, even though I've spent a fair amount of time examining his effect on fashion.
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The hook, "You don't have to flex on me," is like, you don't have to pretend to be anything around me.
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The idea that he can sit in the White House and pretend to be a champion for the abused is absurd.
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All Nisi has to do is pretend to be the granddaughter of Blakemore's long lost love — his family's Black maid, Lily.
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This fact was highly distracting as I watched the 26-year-old pretend to navigate the halls of a haunted hospital.
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First, the group bots will act more like news tickers instead of trying to pretend to be a human discussion partner.
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" Carmichael also claimed Ruby Stephens would "pretend to breastfeed while [her husband] drove the car and managed the two other children.
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"As much as people say, 'Well, it's only pretend to have someone yelling at you full force,' it's terrifying," Harris shares.
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The second was more sinister, and I had to duck into a stranger's driveway and pretend to knock at the door.
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I can no longer pretend to be someone I'm not just so I can fulfil a rigid stereotype of female attractiveness.
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I mime trying to eat the burrito and then pretend to lose my grip on it, tossing it into the void.
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Ruth as Zoya thinks fast, however, and asks a little girl in the audience to pretend to be Liberty Belle's daughter.
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So sometimes women like me have to pretend to be more confident than we really feel just to amp ourselves up.
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To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to 'pretend' to be an ally.
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The happy family posed with Levine's new star and the proud papa even had little Dusty pretend to walk on it.
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Go ahead, pretend to crash it all you want, that solid plastic roll cage will ensure the driver always walks away.
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I'm not an electrician, to be very clear, so I can't pretend to know a lot about this kind of thing.
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If you thought the ceremony was nuts, then how fucking batshit crazy is it that the wives pretend to give birth?!
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But if I might pretend to be completely innocent for a moment, then I have a couple of observations to make.
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How can you possibly pretend to understand what your team needs from you if you don't spend any time with them?
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It hurts that our pain, our suffering, has become background noise to elected officials who don't even pretend to listen anymore.
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It's not a problem to not be okay, it's only a problem to pretend to be okay when we are not.
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Many young men, just like this student, compose artful, convincing masks, but deep down they aren't who they pretend to be.
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Yup—seems like you can just pretend to be your favorite athlete and they'll just conjure themselves out of thin air.
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While judges may pretend to be following the Constitution, they will really be following their own moral, political, and policy preferences.
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A judge can easily pretend to be an originalist while simply manipulating historical meaning to derive the outcome that she prefers.
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In contrast, Democrats in Congress oppose the idea, while Republicans in Congress pretend to favor it, but in fact block it.
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With a name based on the threatening government in Orwell's 1984, the show doesn't pretend to be a paragon of equality.
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When you say no, they pretend to examine it, showing you a symbol on it that allegedly proves it's real gold.
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They can pretend to be together, a mutually beneficial business arrangement that involves a written contract and a ban on kissing.
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I was armed with a bunch of newspapers, so I could pretend to study up on the Brexit vote convulsing Europe.
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If we can't maintain our standards under the most challenging circumstances, then we shouldn't pretend to have them to begin with.
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When we were told to pretend to dive into a pool, I heard a splash and felt ripples across my chest.
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But since we're just coming off Oscars weekend, Kimmel asked Marquand to pretend to be various celebs accepting a golden statue.
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As such, there's a lot of layers packed into this, so I won't pretend to have fully digested this one yet.
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If you make someone a fake ID, you can't pretend to be surprised if it is used in a criminal enterprise.
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But he could, for example, pretend to be a millionaire while going to a restaurant and pay $500 for a meal.
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For reasons both cultural and narratively convenient, the two pretend to be a couple in order to appease his overbearing grandmother.
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Cusack said he does not pretend to be perfect but has tried to comfort the detained students as they have returned.
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But with Trump they lost control: the base wanted someone who was blatantly racist and wouldn't pretend to be anything else.
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A university student named Yoshi called her with a special request: Could she pretend to be his girlfriend for a day?
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They aren't good people, they don't pretend to be good people, and very little indicates they're going to become good people.
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So she suggests role-playing with your kids — pretend to be a neighbor with a litter of kittens to show them.
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Jammers and spoofers — which break a drone's connection to the operator or pretend to be the operator — can't overpower some drones.
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There is no paragraph where the star and the writer pretend to be pals — gag — while doing an everyday-person activity.
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Director Ruben Fleischer clearly knows what the audience wants, and the film doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is.
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We saw them at a restaurant, where his new seduction strategy appeared to be to ignore her and pretend to work.
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I don't pretend to know what would happen if the opposition ran Venezuela, but it would have to be an improvement.
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Given that Costa once thought it hilarious to pretend to throw a fire extinguisher at reporters, it was probably not great.
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For example, a user cannot register the username of a celebrity and truly pretend to be that celebrity on the site.
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Think of Don Lemon as a parallel — while the latter is a pure opinion entity and doesn't pretend to be otherwise.
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People who buy designer clothes and pretend to do hard work versus people who actually get their hands (or jeans) dirty.
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If you want to pretend to be somebody, that's great, but you being you is just a fundamental part of reality.
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Commentators in the state media pretend to be evenhanded, but that's impossible, given where they sit, behind the state's protective curtain.
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Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?
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This topic alone would need more explanations to understand better, but I don't pretend to be an expert on that question.
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Her desperation was so evident that he was willing to pretend to fill that role in order not to embarrass her.
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This is the story of a citizen who says he can't get City Hall to pay attention, or even pretend to.
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"That's a sign of somebody who will say anything, do anything, pretend to be anybody, just to get elected," Obama said.
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In fact, many conservative politicians only pretend to be Scrooges, when they're actually much worse — not mere misers, but actively cruel.
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I would never pretend to be an expert in logic, and I never made it all the way through Gödel, Escher, Bach.
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It is about a man who has to wear the big padded suit and pretend to assault women during self-defense classes.
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In cooperative avian species, helpers at the nest may sometimes pretend to feed offspring, but the consume the morsel of food themselves.
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That was the rule: You can fuck me, but you can't kiss me, and I don't have to pretend to like it.
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Canadians are known for being polite people, but sometimes even they can't pretend to be nice in order to spare others' feelings.
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You're walking your dog and decide you're gonna pretend to steal this girl's bike and then ask her to touch your dick?
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You can have a little fun, step out of your comfort zone, and maybe pretend to be someone else for a night.
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"They can pretend to be common networks like Starbucks, airports, and hotels so your device joins them automatically or manually," Warren explains.
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Jackson unabashedly used the power of the presidency to get involved in policy debates, and didn't even pretend to defer to Congress.
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So, when Marie Claire U.K. revealed the official perfumes worn by both royal brides, we couldn't even pretend to muffle our joy.
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Ugh, can't these Stark kids at least pretend to get along for a few minutes so we can be glad they've reunited?
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I cock my head to the side and pretend to be interested in a box of Corn Flakes selling for thirteen dollars.
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Wearing false eyelashes and drawing on my eyebrows allows me to cover the disorder, hide the shame, and pretend to be 'normal'.
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One challenge was how Mr. Kovarsky could convincingly pretend to play without making ugly, distracting sounds that his microphone would pick up.
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They may assume the identity of actual soldiers deployed overseas or pretend to be engineers working on projects in far-flung locales.
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"He really has become the proverbial swamp that will do and say anything and pretend to be something they're not," Grimm said.
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"Apple decided to take the name and pretend to the world that 'Animoji' was original to Apple," Emonster said in the complaint.
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Couples everywhere pretend to hate the age-old tradition, but still feel obligated to come up with a gift come February 403th.
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He elucidated the concept of the "honest thief": a crook who doesn't pretend to be otherwise, unlike the police and the bureaucrats.
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I don't pretend to be a bastion of mental health, but I cannot, for reasons of self-preservation, buy into Schmid's insanity.
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In the game, the two men pretend to be holding back vomit as they do a dramatic reading of a classic film.
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He constantly thinks the screen door is closed, so we have to pretend to open it for him to come inside pic.twitter.
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In the middle of the show, there would be a gallows set up so Cooper could pretend to be executed via hanging.
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They're not games with logic and solutions, but places where you can literally pretend to be a movie hacker with no consequences.
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He has to put on a child's sweatshirt and pretend to be a student in order to sneak past the hall monitor.
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Pretend to find one of the iPhones on the ground in front of a large group of people you want to impress.
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If you want a great smartphone, all you really need to do is avoid phones that pretend to be excellent, but aren't.
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It's another one of those achingly familiar and mundane exchanges too, where you both pretend to be too cool for online dating.
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Tiger and his team are supposed to enter Iraq discreetly, pretend to be oil rig workers and sneak into the hospital unnoticed.
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I don't have to only be limited to roles where I have to pretend to have an accent or cross the border.
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With cardboard, we could create anything and pretend to be anyone, from a king of a castle to an astronaut in spaceship.
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And when/if you do, the NCAA site gives you a semi-serious set of power points to pretend to look at.
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It eliminated the need to call in and to have to pretend to be embarrassed that you're ordering breakfast cheesy bread, again.
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Actually reducing emissions, or making the vehicles most of us drive more fuel efficient, is just the line they pretend to uphold.
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Shoshanna made Elijah pretend to be her "executive assistant," and it's clear that her former friends see right through this nefarious trick.
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Another must-have accessory is a pair of binoculars, so you can at least pretend to be watching the race up close!
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I'm not going to pretend to tell you what is really in the hearts and minds of those who work at Breitbart.
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"It was a long day, so… it was a lot," Ben doesn't even pretend to sugarcoat his experience for Amanda's concerned parents.
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"its all lowercase unless its a professional setting and i have to pretend to give a shit for a while," says Levin.
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"With Fox no longer ruling the roost, these people will not have to pretend to take Fox seriously any longer," he said.
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This is what a lawyer writes to pretend to his client that's he's doing something beyond filing a suit that can't win.
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"We'll teach you how to pretend to be an anti-fascist and how to become an actual fascist," Trump Jr. said Thursday.
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These are not politicians who pretend to stand in the middle and then from the middle, embrace the common ground of reform.
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This disappoints him immensely, because he's forced to pretend to be Dick's son and deal with annoyances including puberty and other teenagers.
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The Republican establishment is engaged in the very different enterprise of asking its candidate to pretend to be what he is not.
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And it has been incredibly humbling because I can't pretend to have the experience that you have had and others have had.
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She gives me a piece of cake, which I pretend to not really want but then scarf down in my car (oops).
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As a consequence, many studios pretend to be model management agencies or telecommunications providers instead—using the tax codes connected to those.
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I'd pretend to know songs that everyone else knew, or ate food in the dining hall that I'd never heard of before.
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Oh yeah, they also have vignettes where they pretend to be the Reservoir Dogs (its end goal is to sell T-shirts).
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As Buenos Aires' original speakeasy, what do you think about the city's current thirst for themed saloons that pretend to be unlicensed?
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And then there's the one where two men pretend to go for a drive in the charred remains of a motor home.
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Dan Byrd's character, Brandon, asked Olive to pretend to have sex with him so that he would stop getting bullied at school.
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Rap songs have multiple writers and do not glorify instrumental soloists; hip-hop stars do not pretend to be uninterested in commerce.
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In this way, very short books contribute to a greater harmony, whereby people are more like the people they pretend to be.
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The spare numbers do not pretend to offer insights into the characters or move the story along: This is not a musical.
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It doesn't have to be an interaction where you have to pretend to be "normal" just to earn a modicum of tolerance.
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"Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy," Pompeo wrote on Twitter.
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Unlike the Shed or the Vessel, Snark Park does not even pretend to be a gift to the people of New York.
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Early on, they go outside for breaks during which they hold cigarettes and pretend to smoke them; soon they're no longer pretending.
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He knows which ones he must listen to, and which ones he can pretend to listen to, and how to finesse them.
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Silva does not pretend to be a great soloist; he does not play to the gallery or for his personal highlights reel.
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In July, an essay titled "In Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live" got more than five million views on social media.
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"I know he wants to do this to pretend to be Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible movie," Iaconetti told PEOPLE beforehand.
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Rather, I was interested to know why, psychologically, someone would pretend to have served, been injured and lost friends in a war.
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So she hatches a plan: She will pretend to be a wayward girl, and she will admit herself to the frightening institution.
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You are entering a world that will make you smile, cry, hold your breath, scream, and pretend to wield a laser sword.
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Publicly, many right-wing politicians and pundits disdain the Mueller investigation and pretend to believe that Trump's ties to Russia are negligible.
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They pretend to be on the side of ordinary working people — "paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare," he wrote.
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It represents dishonesty and the willingness to pretend to support policy because it's popular with the intention to compromise and concede later.
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There will always be a date where a musical act serenades the couple, who pretend to be big fans and awkwardly dance.
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Working on those problems would actually help to "bank the unbanked," something that many cryptocurrency people used to pretend to care about.
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Beck and her friends are always trying to pretend to be cooler, happier, more carefree, and more interesting than they actually are.
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However, unusually large street protests in Budapest and international criticism have forced the government to at least pretend to seek a compromise.
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I stay in bed and pretend to be fast asleep until I smell coffee on my bedside table that E. brought me.
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Fisher-Price now has an adorable play charcuterie set that lets youngsters ages 3 and up pretend to dine like little foodies.
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Rosa and Dumitra, Diana and John, and Enid and Fabiano know what we're going to order, but pretend to let us decide.
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Kids can pretend to cook using this very book instead of a toy, and there are no stains or spills or crumbs.
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Whether you're sheltering in place or simply minimizing travel and social distancing, Google Earth can let you pretend to see the world.
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Academic economists are basically unanimous that the Republican tax plan would increase America's deficit, which Republicans used to pretend to care about.
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Because if it weren't exciting enough to pretend to be Wonder Woman for a night, doing it with minimal effort is even better.
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Tran had reportedly offered the homeless man, identified as Conan Dehut, 36, a cell phone and cash to pretend to rob the restaurant.
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You could pretend to savor the delicious irony of this one, but it all just tastes like ashes to me at this point.
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Really, I mean, I'm not going to sit here and pretend to you that I did not have any challenges in my life.
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I won't pretend to love how you shared your concern about this incident but - after a stiff drink - I'm glad you raised it.
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Another 37 percent believe congressional Republicans don't like the president — but they pretend to like him in order to get his agenda passed.
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It's absurd to pretend to care about bullying on the internet when two members of your family are among the world's foremost bullies.
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The bottles come with cocktail serving suggestions, but since I don't pretend to be a mixologist, I stuck with a tonic-water mixer.
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Cell-site simulators pretend to be cell phone towers and trick nearby phones into connecting to them instead of to a legitimate signal.
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Their neo-neoclassicism gets to pretend to recall the glory of Greece and Rome in the service of symbolizing a hegemonic world power.
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"Then I changed my name to a stereotypical South Korean name and changed my profile to pretend to be the man," Assemakis said.
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I won't pretend to have all the answers to what makes a reference memorable, but I think there are two ways it works.
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I was not trying to pretend, to do long traveling shots, or anything — I was just filming the way I had seen things.
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Yet euro-zone creditors refuse to accept any debt relief, preferring variants of "extend and pretend" to avoid owning up to fiscal transfers.
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"To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to 'pretend' to be an ally," she added.
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"Right now the safest thing to do is pretend to be a mostly straight male instead of a mostly gay transwoman," they said.
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"We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff," she adds.
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We won't pretend to know everything that 2017 will bring — heck, 2016 sure surprised us — but we're pretty certain there will be changes.
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And for added effect, photographer Chris is going to pretend to be a pap, desperate for a picture of the Love Actually star.
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Meanwhile, millions of people watched her to pretend to be a vital part of a movement that means life or death to them.
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While there was plenty of value extraction by landlords in the 17th century, they did not pretend to be productive, creative or innovative.
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"We're trying to pretend to be a small indie team that works with Unity and pushes it as much as possible," he explains.
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And if the son of a poor Tunisian car mechanic could not be a CEO, he could at least pretend to be one.
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Just ask anyone who, circa age six, demanded a "bug party" or an event where everyone had to pretend to be a dog.
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Cartwright said she then took the baby and a blanket and begin to pretend to breastfeed her, as the woman continued to stare.
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"We're cutting edge lawyers and policy advocates but we don't pretend to be cutting edge when it comes to tech," he also said.
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And sometimes they'll pretend to reconcile, and then when everybody kind of forgets about the case, then turn around and kill the person.
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All over the world, Niall said, broke millennials who needed cash fast were signing NDAs and signing on to pretend to be robots.
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She's just going to have to pretend to like cheap fluffy slippers and a tube of hand cream, like she does every year.
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After Charlotte acted, some legislators worried that troublesome males could pretend to identify as female and legally insist on using the ladies' room.
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MAYER: WELL, I MEAN I CAN'T PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE DIFFERENT MODELINGS THAT VARIOUS FOLKS DO IN TERMS OF DISCOUNTS, ETC.
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People with autism can be as funny as everybody else; we just don't know how to pretend to find a bad joke funny.
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Friends, with respect: Space Jam is hot garbage, and even people that pretend to love the movie know this in their secret hearts.
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And those folks, if they're going to continue to pretend to be conservatives, they're going to have an obligation to resist Trump policies.
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No more Vince McMahon pulling "hilarious" practical jokes on people like the time he had very real cops pretend to arrest an employee.
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A good man who has empathy, or even knows how to pretend to have it, would not make the unfolding tragedy about himself.
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Spending $40,000 a day to pretend to be a mundane cowboy when cowboys already exist is a weird niche for a theme park.
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Her brassy bestie (Debi Mazar) persuades her to pretend to be 26, and voilà: She lands an assistant gig at a publishing house.
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Wall Street has long been a place of outsized compensation for the few who can master its rules, or at least pretend to.
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The dozen young and eager cast members, wearing face paint, candy-colored wigs and sometimes monks' robes, periodically pretend to turn into wolves.
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Catchers frame pitches to fool umpires, batters pretend to be struck by pitches, and base runners leave the baseline to interfere with fielders.
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Trump still got to pretend to drive an 18-wheeler semi truck that day, which is what you can call a real accomplishment.
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Another 37 percent of Republicans said they think those same GOP lawmakers also don't like the president, and only "pretend" to pass legislation.
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For instance, we may stop pretending to be superheroes, but a lot of us seem convinced that we can pretend to be investors.
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This is why I find the phone so therapeutic: It's so intimate that there's no need to pretend to be anyone but yourself.
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He would again check into a hotel, pretend to be a tourist and leave quick missed calls on Mr. Abaaoud's Turkish phone number.
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If approved, a middleman tells him, the visa will be granted, and he and Narinder must spend a year together — or pretend to.
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In five years, it will be forgotten and another new bad thing will be the bad thing everyone tries to pretend to love.
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I was definitely very jealous, and not only jealous, but offended that Gerard had the audacity to pretend to "be kept" by Andy.
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"[These are] spaces that pretend to be public spaces, that profess to safeguard free expression, when the reality is evidently something quite different."
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And now it's promoting a mode created by other developers which is based on a popular mod where players pretend to be objects.
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I would pretend to enjoy it just so he wouldn't be upset with me because he had told me he believes in me.
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If you're a diver or just want to pretend to be one you could do worse than this beefy and very legible piece.
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These are usually memoirs, autofictions, or books that pretend to speak for the group to which the fake author is assumed to belong.
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Especially after divorce, it can be tempting to hide, pretend to be someone else, or try to attract a certain kind of person.
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She talks and acts like a Middle American white man — with occasional stereotypical exceptions, as when she must pretend to be a prostitute.
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The spectacle was watching Trump pretend to care about remedying a problem that he is consciously continuing to not only cheer but worsen.
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While I was finishing overdubs on the music, I said, 'Jamie can I pretend to be you and lay down melody for verses?
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I can't do anything immediate about the background noise; I can't pretend to ignore the danger of walking through a dark place alone.
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It is in on the somewhat uncomfortable joke, which is that brands are not people, even if they pretend to act like them.
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What he meant, of course, was abundantly clear: Theoretically, there are five Premier League teams who would pretend to be Manchester City's equal.
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Sure, there are also parts that seem extraneous or simply don't work, but the Duplasses never pretend to be masters of their craft.
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Mr. Benioff compared a new Facebook Messenger product for children to candy cigarettes, which he used to pretend to smoke as a boy.
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You could pretend to be anything and be accepted, whereas before that, you really had to have the background and education and breeding.
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"I'm too old to pretend to be something I'm not, and a lot of the things I am are not attractive," he says.
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In a barrage of Twitter posts on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said Democrats only "PRETEND to be aggrieved" over his dismissal of Mr. Comey.
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I don't pretend to know the sources of her anguish, but anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura.
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The number of companies that might pretend to be in distress in the hopes of getting a handout to remain is even larger.
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"Too often we're cheap dates that fall for programs that pretend to know us, or ask about our emotional states," Ms. Turkle said.
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STEIN: You know, I don't pretend to, you know, be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy has a problem.
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She didn't pretend to attempt to steady it by resting a hand on the handle, so I put one hand on each suitcase.
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Shareholder meetings may seem like highly ritualized events that only pretend to offer meaningful interactions between companies and the investors who own them.
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No matter Russia's true disdain for international law, it must at least pretend to be law-abiding to achieve its rational self-interest.
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And it may encourage your grandson to open up to people who love both his parents, as you will now pretend to do.
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In the videos, the women talk in velvety voices, make eye contact with the camera, give compliments and pretend to touch the viewer.
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But the Trump Tango never involves an apology, a change of heart, or even a good-faith effort to pretend to be sorry.
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IMSI-catchers, commonly known as Stingrays, are small devices that pretend to be a cell phone tower and force nearby phones to connect.
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Bannon is in "communication" regularly with Burke, although Harnwell acknowledges that the three-times divorced Bannon "doesn't pretend to be a model Catholic".
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I don't think there is a motive that would make me understand why she'd torment her friends and pretend to be tormented for years.
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Sage Boggs, a reporter from Mic, recently discovered videos uploaded to YouTube from a Newseum exhibit that invites guests to pretend to be reporters.
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" Carey's publicist told me, "These allegations are false and come from a source that must be desperate to pretend to be in the know . . .
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The manager might pretend to yell at me for a minute, but he'll pat me on the back the moment you're out of sight.
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I look forward to that one hour each night where I can kick back, turn off my smartphone and pretend to be somewhere else.
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The kid who brought us to his sugar daddy's house, where we had to pretend to be still sleeping when the latter came home?
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An angry employee, Chan Tran (left), hired a homeless man, Conan Dehut (right), to help her pretend to rob the restaurant where she worked.
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On the buying side we've eliminated the ability to spoof domains, which will reduce the prevalence of sites that pretend to be real publications.
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To help overcome anxiety, Li suggests you pretend to be your own lawyer, coming up with an argument for why you shouldn't feel anxious.
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It is not my perspective — but unlike a decade ago, it can no longer pretend to be the only one in the autism conversation.
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You know what&aposs interesting, the irony here, is that it took Donald Trump for these hypocrites to finally act or pretend to act.
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Now, in moments, we&aposre going to expose all the political hacks who pretend to be so fair and unbiased, the so-called "journalists".
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"Sometimes we use Facebook to distract authorities, like we pretend to discuss an important meeting, which obviously won't happen," activist Nguyen Lan Thang said.
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I pretend to be a stranger finding me, folding a dog-ear over to remember my black-and-white face — a very interesting girl.
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Ilana replaced her diffuser's essential oils with vape oil and the pair pretend to vape and pass, via Skype, as is their beloved tradition.
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The writers had Fallon, who doesn't speak Spanish, say "I pretend to speak your language, though in truth I only know the song "Despacito.
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Or you can be like me and add your face to a picture of the sky and pretend to be god or the sun.
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"It's that small hit of goodness for a few seconds — doesn't even pretend to want your brain to work," he says of useless sites.
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But The Girlfriend Experience isn't about those topics, does not pretend to be about those topics, and should not be measured against those topics.
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Time to put on this fake-ness and go in here for nine to 15 hours and pretend to be somebody that I'm not.
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There can be internal pressure to pretend to be chill or game for things you're not interested in for the sake of the party.
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This started with people using random objects like combs to pretend to play "Stand by Me," but then it turned into so much more.
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Hooters: According to their website, Hooters is helping you give your dad "a gift he won't have to pretend to like" this Father's Day.
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I won&apost pretend to tell you a single thing about this year&aposs Northern Iowa team, but that school is usually pretty legit.
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MacFarlane made an awkward joke about the nominees, and congratulated them because they "no longer have to be pretend to be attracted" to Weinstein.
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He describes politics as a sham in which the two big parties pretend to fight for power while splitting the spoils in back rooms.
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Unless you're a plow driver or a parka-clad elected official trying to look essential, one doesn't pretend to do battle against a blizzard.
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"[In one scene], we couldn't put in a rig and let her actually float, so she literally had to pretend to float," Tipping said.
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And they can understand how boring, expensive, and time-consuming it is to pretend to be as smooth and supple as a Veet commercial.
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And it is precisely because Trump's appeal is so simple that he can pretend to be a more complex politician than he actually is.
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They were asked to reflect on their own experiences and generate a list of possible reasons that someone might pretend to climax during sex.
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While both Linda and Ellen pretend to be okay with their man's noncommittal ways, they eventually break up with his low-key trifling behind.
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There are many bots out there that don't even really pretend to be human and provide automated emergency notifications or serve customer service roles.
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It's a good option for people who love spontaneity or never quite got around to making vacation plans and then pretend to love spontaneity.
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When doing this, Googlebot will pretend to be different devices in order to test the performance of individual sites on smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc.
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I am not going to pretend to fully understand it, but there is a reason that product-based companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc.
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It's possible to grab a cookie from some packet and use it to pretend to be the user that cookie is intended to identify.
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The pranksters even got a phone number with a Fairfax, Virginia, area code, so they could pretend to be based at the NRA's headquarters.
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The older you get you try to pretend to be somewhat composed even though you still don't know what the fuck you are doing.
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I don't pretend to have all of the answers, but I think there are five things we can do to bring about this change.
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I remember in seventh grade, my best friend decided to take our Oklahoma history book and pretend to read it upside down in class.
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Creating a congress of depravityPoliticon does not pretend to be anything other than what it is: a colorful manifestation of politics as commercialized spectacle.
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When we finally reach the suicide itself and Ms. Sheil hesitates to pretend to shoot herself, "Kate Plays Christine" feels like an exploitative stunt.
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Once users engage, scammers then pretend to be an IT professional and badger victims to hand over money in exchange for phony tech support.
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Included in this colorful cart are flower pots, seed packets, tools, and cash for when they pretend to sell you some of their bounty.
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For parents of a child with a disability it's a whole other ballgame with its own dynamics and hardships I can't pretend to know.
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But if you re-watch the scene, and pretend to yourself that Selyse is seeing Melisandre as she actually appears, it actually fits better.
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He also gave his characters their own MySpace pages, so that you could at one time pretend to engage with them via social media.
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You pretend to like him, because he has the power to kill you and every single one of our citizens, if he wants to.
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While many Republicans pretend to unite behind their candidate of venom and hate, Democrats would rejoice behind their ticket of aspiration, competence and hope.
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We pretend to be scandalized by the phrase "coat-hanger abortion," but in the end it is a punch line in a party game.
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Users can pretend to be starring in blockbuster movies by uploading pictures to the app, which then create simulated video clips using machine learning.
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That neighbor, Margot Rodríguez, was often featured in Mr. Miranda's films — she would pretend to faint, or to sing, or to play the guitar.
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You reach for your phone and pretend to be looking at something important, while simultaneously hoping no one sees you refreshing your Instagram feed.
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We're long past the days when galleries represented artists exclusively and one gallery could pretend to be disengaged from the work of the others.
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We weren't going to pretend to be other people; we were going to be ourselves in a parallel reality in which we hadn't met.
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The hands-on event had waiters serving miniature ice cream sandwiches, but the best I could do was pretend to be a kid again.
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According to Federal Trade Commission data, complaints about scams in which callers pretend to be from the government have reached an all-time high.
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And neither is the drive to pretend to be someone else, as Ty Cobb, a member of President Trump's legal team, learned last week.
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"I would wait till everyone fell asleep in the afternoon, I'd pretend to fall asleep and then sneak out to see Rosa," said Bushra.
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Phishing scams, which are typically email campaigns where attackers pretend to be an authoritative entity you know and trust, are both popular and effective.
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They didn't pretend to know exactly how social media would be used, and they gave even less thought to how it might be misused.
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It is also the moment when we can at least pretend to believe, for better or worse, that the dead do not stay dead.
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I don't pretend to have a solution to this or other vehicular noise pollution (horn honking!), but it seems that attention must be paid.
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Other artists may make criminally large sums from their sales, but at least they don&apost pretend to be savvy satirists while doing so.
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He said the party "tries to be a compromise between workers and management," whereas the Republican party "doesn't even try to pretend" to compromise.
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So I'm having him guard all five guys at once, because I already know that no one else will even pretend to play defense.
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Like Ms. Taylor, she must dig out men's clothing and pretend to be "Manuel" when she goes back to visit her family in Mexico.
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He doesn't pretend to be a hero or an antihero — just a young man alone, trying to get through life with some honest grace.
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To save her children's lives, Ung's mother sent her kids out of Ro Leap, telling them to pretend to be orphans and never to return
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It can't be used to play Mozart, but you can still pretend to play it whenever your friends start complaining about their inconsequential life problems.
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As a form of protest, the organization stages "die-ins" where members lay on the ground of a public space and pretend to be dead.
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Loeser pointed out President Trump had been able to pretend to self-fund his 2016 campaign while raising $20 one MAGA hat at a time.
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One of the reasons I'm an actor is that I'm naturally very shy, so it's liberating to dress up and pretend to be someone else.
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But they also have a game where some Amazons dress up in deer skins while others hunt them, capture them, and pretend to eat them.
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This is why we constantly see journalists, activists, and politicians trying to vocally shame Republicans who barely even pretend to act in the public interest.
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I DON'T PRETEND TO BE. AND THAT BOTHERS ME. I LIKE TO GO INTO A COMPANY THAT I SAY TO MYSELF INSTINCTIVE, THIS IS GREAT.
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Legally Blonde and The Devil Wears Prada pretend to be about women in the workplace, but they both require the same coming-of-age payoff.
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A popular comic by an illustrator who goes by Mae suggests you should pretend to be a person's friend if they're being harassed in public.
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It is the strongest coffee I have ever drunk and I pretend to sip it, trying to ignore the grounds that stick in my throat.
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There's also a Snapchat-like filter function that lets you pretend to be characters in the show, including a founding father on the $10 note.
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I can connect with people on a more intimate level than I was before, because I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
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Here's something even weirder, something I haven't told anyone: Sometimes, when I'm having a hard day or need advice, I pretend to call my mom.
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All that's missing is a virtual Oculus Rift experience involving cutting off your own ear, so everyone can pretend to be the next van Gogh.
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Washington, D.C., has a high population of robocalls because scammers often pretend to be calling on behalf of government agencies like the IRS or ICE.
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A new season of Outlander means a new set of credits to wave your arms to as you pretend to dance around time-traveling stones.
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In 2016, Roll Call wrote about the $100 Carhartt jacket politicians don when they want to "pretend to be normal people," often in campaign ads.
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Kevin goes for a really low blow, telling his brother that he's sick of watching him pretend to be the new man of the house.
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There's $75,000 with your name on it if you'll just act like Kim Kardashian and pretend to eat a "Chewy Hair Vitamin," whatever that is.
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This twist was reworked in BioShock to comment on the way that games pretend to offer self-determination, while guiding players down a predetermined path.
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But it's also this idea that you can become the person you want if you buy the clothes; you can pretend to be that person.
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And when/if you do, the NCAA site gives you a semi-serious set of power points to pretend to look at (see screenshot here).
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An increasingly popular scam is the "grandparent scam," where impostors either pretend to be the victims' grandchild or claim to be holding the victims' grandchild.
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Some examples include Yoni Bloch's Pretend to Be Happy, in which the non-existent viewer renders change within the story through thoughtfully placed graphic overlays.
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So given that the outcome here is already inevitable, we should all be happy to see Nenshi at least pretend to drive a hard bargain.
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" Seth McFarland said at the 2013 Oscars that the female nominees for Supporting Actress "no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.
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New species of digital fraud and deception come to light almost every week, if not every day: Russian bots that pretend to be American humans.
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British cooking show legend Nigella Lawson doesn't pretend to be a culinary technician like Gordon Ramsay or Jacques Pépin, nor does she care to be.
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So he used to put on the big khaki shirt and go to school when he was in first grade and pretend to be Steve.
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"I feel like some brands just hire people to stand near you and you pretend to be friends," Rose said of pairing up with Baldwin.
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By sitting at my desk trawling through bond market analysis late into the evening, I could pretend to myself my life was rich and meaningful.
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" Later, the bunny agrees to pretend to be eaten so the bear will look cool to a judgmental clique of nearby bears, deadpanning: "Oh … no.
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They pretend to be unable to make out what Shakespeare is trying to do, standing alone on that sandstone block in such a summerlike costume.
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Go debate it on CNN on primetime but don't pretend to be a non-partisan correspondent and then meltdown like that and embarrass your integrity.
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But while both devices pretend to be running the latest version of Android Pie 9.0, in reality they were running OS variants like Kitkat 4.4.0.
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"When people come into your home, pretend to be your friend, then stab you in the back, there's something really wrong with that," she said.
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