Pretends

During the festival, she sings a song that pretends to be about environmentalism but is really about sensuality.

Farah simply places her phone inside the book and scrolls through social media while she pretends to read in front of her toddler.

He pretends to pick up the phone and then dramatically slams the imaginary phone down, ending the fabricated phone call.

However, the boycott of Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light, prompted by their controversial partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a TikTok influencer who pretends to be a girl, defied precedent.

It was Youngkin who renamed the office, replacing “equity” with “opportunity,” playing to the far-right schematic that pretends that generations of state-sponsored structural inequality can be done away with the stroke of a pen.

Labour has launched a new attack ad against the prime minister, claiming that “whatever he pretends now, Rishi Sunak was Boris Johnson’s enabler”.

Producers don’t just waste the yearly private concert from a musical artist that the couple on the date pretends is more famous than actually is the case — Griffin Palmer, anyone?

Sally breaks the news to Tim and he pretends to accept their marriage plans, before luring Elaine into a taxi and taking her hostage, leaving Stephen on the doorstep.

The “Cuban communist regime pretends that it has nothing to do with this “human trafficking”.

The film follows a bizarre amnesia plot, in which Ana Faris' Kate pretends to be the wife of a wealthy yacht-owning playboy after he falls off his boat and wakes up on a beach unable to remember who he is.

Things are still awkward between them, but when Christine points out the tension, Spock pretends he hasn't noticed.

Thousands of illegal immigrants continue flooding the southern US border while the Biden administration pretends everything is fine.

You’ve no doubt heard of the scam where the perpetrator calls up an elderly person and pretends to be their grandchild or some other close relative.

Economy gets the deep fried garlic and sodium confit to-go from the overpriced HMS host restaurant across from the gate, and pretends to enjoy it cold after takeoff.

For those who might not know, follows Powell’s Gary as he works as a guy who pretends to be a hitman to catch potential killers.

He pretends to be friendly and sympathetic – and Amy thinks she’s talking to Les.

Her ghost-whispering talents have made her a minor celebrity, hosting a haunt-hunting TV show produced by her boyfriend, Rory (Justin Theroux), who pretends to be enlightened but is obviously an emotional vampire.

In the winter fuel eligibility scam, a fake text pretends to be from the regarding winter heating subsidies.

It doubles to take away their perceived adultness and relegates them to a child, a scared child with a toy who pretends to be big and tough.

It’s nowhere near as good a value as it pretends to be, racking up a poor TCC Rating of 4.0 on a 10-point scale.