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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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The show only pretends to be organized around romantic couples.
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The sequence in which Carmy tries to talk Richie down from a panic attack feels equally dynamic and alive right to its conclusion — when Carmy pretends they’ve gotten locked in, just as Carmy once was, to mess with Richie’s head.
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The Gulf, though legally unchanged, now assumes direct Iranian strike risks.
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Photos of the chefs are right there on the packaging, and the service correctly assumes that their reputations will draw you in.
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Swanson earned the national championship in the Postsecondary Collision Damage Appraisal Division, a competition that simulates the work of professional collision estimators and insurance appraisers, according to a press release from the college.
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The mission simulates a scenario in which a maneuverable satellite rapidly approaches and inspects another spacecraft that is not cooperating.
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“Dissembles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissembles. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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