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pretense sentence examples

  • Pretense of a pious act any day.
  • They will abandon all pretense of benign assistance in favor of a more oppressive approach.
  • Please note that there are also risks of dealing with underage persons or people acting under false pretense.
  • I make no pretense of being able to address all of the problems: i can't.
  • Your country isn't britain, it's europe so drop the pretense and desist from claiming to care about employment levels in britain.
  • Her work has no pretense of applicability to human medicine.

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