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pre·tends
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word pretends.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pretends in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pretends in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of pretends in a Sentence
It's impossible to pay for Medicare for All without middle-class tax increases, to accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.
Instead of addressing the real issues to boost cohesion, (the government) pretends they come from abroad and wants to push them abroad.
So he pretends that this medicine would save 90 % of people's lives. It is not the medicine. It's just the way the disease goes, the problem is that people are going to believe that.
This offensive legislation pretends skin color has never mattered in our country. As far too many Americans know, race-based oppression, discrimination and inequality has been a fact of life since before the dawn of our nation, our children deserve to learn the full story and truth of our people — the victories and the struggles. Unfortunately, the controlling party is attempting to erase historical fact in favor [of] whitewashed falsehoods.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at Trump White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was, it is the only thing he does well.
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