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English word

pretend

B1Frequent NGSL-3
UK /prɪˈtend/US /prɪˈtend/
verb

to behave in a particular way, in order to make other people believe something that is not true

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Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)
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and I pretending to have loud mother-daughter fights with each other during boarding, so no one would want the empty seat between us on Southwest.

Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)

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