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Pretend in sentence

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We pretend that what we do doesn't have an effect on people.
We pretend like what we're doing doesn't have a huge impact on other people.
Not that I'm not afraid now, but I've learned to pretend.
Any child can say, "I'm a tiger," pretend to be a tiger.
And you really can't decide where you hit very much, because they pretend you can steer, but you're being delivered.
Do you know how much of us all pretend to be somebody we're not?
Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy.
And let's pretend the other one is good at language skills.
And you'll see when you see the video, she can't even pretend to be an agonizing mother.
When I was younger, I used to stand on my tippy-toes, stare at that picture, close my eyes tightly, and just pretend that it was me gazing up at the man who revolutionized the Civil Rights Movement, who marched on Washington and who transformed a generation by his words, "I have a dream."
But as long as we pretend that CO2 is free, as long as these uses are nearly invisible, how can we expect change?
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
Now, I won't stand here and pretend like I've mastered this, it's pretty far from it.
Well, you can't just go into a community and pretend to change it, you need to look at a lot of factors.
And you can't pretend to have a relationship of only a computer with a child.
You can't pretend that people are just going to touch a computer and become digitally included, you need to have a process.
Now I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I know that me as an individual and we as a nation welcome this community of ideas worth spreading.
I don't pretend to [know many Irish words], but in Kerry they were often known as "ainmhide Na seolta," "the monster with the sails."
I'm not a geneticist, so I won't pretend to understand the genetics.
I don't understand or pretend to understand this; I suspect most geneticists don't either, but they produce the numbers.
It's a little poem called "Budapest," and in it I reveal, or pretend to reveal, the secrets of the creative process.
But I like to pretend that it comes with ease.
So I like to at least pretend it just flows out.
And we have to be, of course, mindful and responsible of how the technology is developed and ultimately used, but we can't simply close our eyes and pretend that it isn't advancing; it's advancing.
People experience pretend empathy as though it were the real thing.
So during that moment when that woman was experiencing that pretend empathy, I was thinking, "That robot can't empathize.
Rob Legato: I pretend they're clapping for me.
So when you feel powerful, you're more likely to do this, but it's also possible that when you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful.
We've had people pretend that this is a problem that's been fixed.
I don't want to pretend for a minute that what we have is going to be enough.
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