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How to use the word pseudo- in a Sentence?

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Yes, we are pseudo inconvenienced, but how do you get inconvenienced by your own child? i’m just trying to be better, trying to be more of an educator today, in addition to being able to hug my kids because I think that’s really important too.

Sandra Colton-Medici

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ Democrats ] know they'll unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn't be there.

Pat Toomey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Almost all Employees and franchisees of brokerage firms and even tips giving pseudo experts do not invest or trade a single penny rupee in stock market and this is substantial proof to make people understand how big fraud is stock market

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

I had a plan going in for that question to be asked, it was a pseudo witch hunt going on -- who was vaccinated, who wasn't vaccinated. I was in a multi-month conversation that turned into an appeal process with the NFL at that time, and my appeal hinged on that exact statement [immunized]. So what I said was, number one, factually true. I went through a multi-immunization process. And at the end of that, I don't know what you would call it, I would call it immunized.

Aaron Rodgers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

Günter Bechly

added by Normando
2 years ago

It feels like [ legalization ] has to happen soon, but it might not happen how people think. You get a bill passed to allow banks to clearly serve this industry without a whole bunch of restrictions, and that could be pseudo-legalization, so, the actual move by the federal government to' legalize' marijuana or let states decide might not come for years ; but that reality might play out anyway with some other type of legislation.

Chris Walsh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our moral code is constantly evolving; it’s impacted by the betrayers, masters of deceit, and the pseudo-truth tellers among us, even those we love.

RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

For Shin to be arrested for forced confinement and physical assaults shows that her church was not working as a' normal' church but had characteristics of a pseudo-religion exploiting the followers.

Tark Ji-Il

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You did a show of strength by contravening the indications of the Italian and Libyan coastguard. Now, you'll carry this human load to the Netherlands, i want to save lives but I'm paid by Italians to defend the safety of Italian citizens. I don't accept there are organizations of pseudo-volunteers that endanger the lives of those who flee Africa and then think to disembark them all in Italy.

Matteo Salvini

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Once again, there is proof that demonstrations organized by pseudo-migrant defenders have essentially aimed to disrupt economic life.

Mayor Natacha Bouchart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is a direct correlation between efforts to boycott and divest from Sanction Israel on campus and increased hate crimes against Jews, including swastikas painted on Jewish centers and fraternities, Jewish students being harassed and intimidated, and several cases of outright violence, the pseudo-academic delegitimizaton of Sanction Israel fuels this fire, and has created a situation where some pro-Israel students are afraid to voice their opinions in the classroom.

Brett Cohen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's disappointing that, once again, Princeton Review is promoting this pseudo-ranking as though it were meaningful, it's insulting to all of our students, since they are here to prepare to become leaders of their generation.

University Chancellor Phyllis Wise

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Having President Obama and the weight of the White House behind efforts to ban conversion therapy is so critical in the fight for transgender and LGB young people, my hope is that when a transgender person's struggle is acknowledged by one of the most recognizable figures in the world, it positively changes the way they view themselves. The pseudo-science that propels conversion therapy cannot match the self-acceptance that comes with this kind of change.

Mara Keisling

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're creating a group of sort of pseudo citizens who live overseas, but can take advantage of the fact that they are U.S. citizens on paper, there is no question this is a threat to our national interest at worst. At best, it is something very distasteful because it cheapens U.S. citizenship.

Immigration Studies analyst Jessica Vaughan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm stunned by the twisted logic of the spokespersons of the two (colleges) and the pseudo-experts that are blaming radicalization of young people for what has happened.

Adil Charkaoui

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Having checked the facts, I can tell you that individual was registered with the school but only attended two classes, not two months as reported ... after that he left the class, i'm stunned by the twisted logic of the spokespersons of the two (colleges) and the pseudo-experts that are blaming radicalization of young people for what has happened.

Adil Charkaoui

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I refer to it being pseudo-necrophilia, there are some people who really won’t go through a necrophilia act but having someone who is drugged or asleep may be enough for someone.

Mark Griffiths

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Fred Allen

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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