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pretend [prɪˈtend] VB intr, trans

1. pretend (make believe):

pretend
to pretend to be interested
to pretend to be sb/sth

2. pretend (claim):

pretend
I don't pretend to know

Usage examples with pretend

to pretend to be interested
I don't pretend to know
to pretend to be sb/sth

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.
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As a child, after school she often pretended to be a teacher while playing with her friends.
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Guys love me; chicks pretend not to, he remarks.
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It is even more tragic that other world leaders who witness repression pretend it is not happening, or is exaggerated.
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The word dude (or the now-archaic term greenhorn) indicates an individual unfamiliar with cowboy culture, especially one who is trying to pretend otherwise.
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The couple would pretend to be a bad lounge act.
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The local newspapers cover up for him and pretend the assassination had succeeded.
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She frequently instructs her son to pretend to be her siblingsometimes her brother, sometimes her sister.
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A popular saying that the civil servants pretended to work while the state pretended to pay them expressed this grim reality.
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Sellers subsequently became deliberately uncooperative and would often pretend to be sick, only to be later spotted water-skiing the same day.
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