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as in to pretend
to present a false appearance of
he dissembled happiness at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married—to someone else
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as in to dissimulate
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age
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Recent Examples of dissemble
Think about it like dissembling something and then putting it together in a fresh way!
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Quora, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
The Identi-Kit Man (1962), a piece currently owned by the Tate museum network, displays a man whose body appears to dissemble into jigsaw pieces.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
Pushing back on reporters, at the time Scher often dissembled and appeared to brush aside concerns about what was clearly an increasingly out-of-control situation.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
According to Rebecca, Jonathan once spent 30 minutes dissembling a lamp in a stranger’s yard to free a bird trapped inside.
—Sydney Bishop, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Quora, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
The Identi-Kit Man (1962), a piece currently owned by the Tate museum network, displays a man whose body appears to dissemble into jigsaw pieces.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
Pushing back on reporters, at the time Scher often dissembled and appeared to brush aside concerns about what was clearly an increasingly out-of-control situation.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
According to Rebecca, Jonathan once spent 30 minutes dissembling a lamp in a stranger’s yard to free a bird trapped inside.
—Sydney Bishop, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissemble
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Scam warnings have been issued in multiple states over criminals pretending to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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And by the 1930s, some of the parties, particularly Nazi Germany, merely pretended to abide by treaty limits.—
Eric S. Edelman,
Foreign Affairs,
3 June 2025
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Sponsors may assume their site partners are ready, only to discover costly delays during study startup.—
Sonali Bloom,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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For present purposes, the Court can assume (as seems likely) that Congress intended to preclude the President (or any subordinate officials acting at his direction) from directing, supervising, or controlling the Corporation.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
8 June 2025
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Advertisement Read More: The Worst Thing to Say to Someone Who’s Depressed In the June report, the organization stressed that AI tools that simulate human relationships need to be designed with safeguards that mitigate potential harm.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
12 June 2025
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Researchers say a working quantum computer will be a useful tool to simulate complicated physics or do math that could decipher encrypted data.—
Chris Eudaily,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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“Dissemble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissemble. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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