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as in pretends
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 dissimulates
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age
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Recent Examples of dissembles
With his multi-instrumentalist bandmates, PJ Moore and co-songwriter Robert Bell, Buchanan zooms into these exchanges to prolong them or dissembles them into jagged pieces that leave the bigger picture to us.
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Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 1 Feb. 2026
Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 1 Feb. 2026
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No one pretends to extract any truth or significance.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Receiving gifts is the one love language everyone pretends not to have.—
Jennifer Noyes,
Air Mail,
31 Jan. 2026
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The newer model assumes that demand follows trust.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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Kerry Haigh will continue to serve as interim CEO until Clark assumes his role March 2.—
Eric Prisbell,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The software simulates wind passing over the avatar, computational fluid dynamics calculate how much resistance there is — and how tweaking a skater’s form alters that.—
Howard Fendrich,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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Most prominently, engineers detected leaking hydrogen during the test, known as a wet dress rehearsal that simulates a launch day countdown.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Dissembles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissembles. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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