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also façade
1
as in front
a forward part or surface
all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village
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as in pretense
a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive
his interest in acting is just a facade—he joined the drama club to meet girls
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as in veneer
a deceptively attractive external appearance
the company's facade of success collapsed when it was revealed that its financial officers had been cooking the books for years
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Recent Examples of facade
Book Tower finally found its savior in Detroit businessman Dan Gilbert, whose real estate firm, Bedrock, bought the distressed property from a foreign corporation in 2015 and proceeded with an extensive $317 million redevelopment project, including a deep cleaning of the dirtied limestone facade.
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Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 31 Mar. 2026
Repair work on the store’s façade was already underway, the staffer said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
The facade is built to handle privacy quite well.
—Stefan Ionescu
march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
The land recreates Arendelle around a lagoon, its timber buildings painted in muted Scandinavian pastels, facades adorned with rosemaling, a traditional Norwegian decorative art.
—Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 31 Mar. 2026
Repair work on the store’s façade was already underway, the staffer said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
The facade is built to handle privacy quite well.
—Stefan Ionescu
march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
The land recreates Arendelle around a lagoon, its timber buildings painted in muted Scandinavian pastels, facades adorned with rosemaling, a traditional Norwegian decorative art.
—Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for facade
Noun
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In December 2023, Darrell Fletcher had a dead, mature tree fall in front of his car on Druid Park Drive.—
Chevall Pryce,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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Police then lost sight of the vehicle before spotting it being driven west on Campbell Avenue, where the driver abruptly stopped in front of a bar, according to Allard.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Maybe the pretense was comforting to him, too.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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As architectural fashion has shifted, the software is no longer associated with complex geometry, and the pretense that digital tools might liberate architects—spurring them to new heights of creativity—has faded.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Perhaps predictably, one of her favorite pieces in the line is a gracefully curved dressing table in walnut and birch veneers.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
30 Mar. 2026
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Researchers at Austria's Graz University of Technology explored this wild idea while thinking about ways to prevent layers of wood veneers from peeling off each other when they were forced apart with regular use.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Department of the Treasury last Thursday designated Hayat Yolu as a key player in a covert global network that uses the guise of humanitarian aid to raise money overseas.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sponsor me, lip-gloss brands, selfie ring lights, and Big Pharma antidepressants!—
Emily Menez,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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Take the snug, where a wall unit painted in a high-gloss chocolate brown serves as a sleek counterpoint to the deep-dish velvet sofa.—
Laura Regensdorf,
Architectural Digest,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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It’s directed by Linus O’Brien, the son of Richard O’Brien, the British New Zealander who wrote the show (and played Riff Raff) and then went on a gender odyssey.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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Its top show was Cuomo, which averaged 289,000 viewers, up 65%, and 45,000 among adults 25-54, up 114%.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Ground systems identified the pose of the arm’s end effector in real time using first‑view camera imagery to plan motion and generate control commands.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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Completely relaxed, the dog naps upside down in a pose many viewers likened to a roasting chicken.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Those are fighting words, and, in the coming days, the Pope can counter them as much through symbolic acts as through words of peace.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Facade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facade. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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