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pretend to

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Abby decides she will propose to Harper while at her family’s house, but *plot twist* Harper lets Abby know that she hasn’t come out to her parents yet, and they both have to pretend to be straight. Source: Internet

According to another, those present would pretend to throw him into the fire and, for some time afterwards, they would speak of him as if he were dead. Source: Internet

And I did, and it started getting views and I was like, Should l just pretend to be a Harvard student now? Source: Internet

At Belmont, Portia and Nerissa taunt and pretend to accuse their husbands before revealing they were really the lawyer and his clerk in disguise (V). Source: Internet

As Hume puts it, “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Source: Internet

A surveyor doubled down on those claims, noting the sector was 'nowhere near as open as it pretend to be, there is a lot of hiding and backstabbing.' Source: Internet

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