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pretends

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Algernon confesses a similar deception: he pretends to have an invalid friend named Bunbury in the country, whom he can "visit" whenever he wishes to avoid an unwelcome social obligation. Source: Internet

And in the performance, behind a mask of innocent inquiry, the same old interrogation – which pretends to ask about racism in Britain, but in fact only hopes to smoke you out in the open and then draw some blood. Source: Internet

A much younger Shaggy pretends that the dog belongs to him, to keep the pup out of trouble, but really so he can have someone to talk to. Source: Internet

“And the people who he pretends to care about are the people he has the most disdain for because he could care less about them. Source: Internet

As things stand, the President has the most unenviable task of repairing a battered economy, which invariably turns out to be a handiwork that he pretends to have never been party to. Source: Internet

Carrie pretends that, now they have slept together, they will have to get married, to which Charles endeavours to respond before realising she is joking. Source: Internet

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