as in pretended
to present a false appearance of shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy
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Albini phoned the Lemonheads’ Evan Dando and pretended to be Madonna’s assistant, and placed him on hold for 45 minutes.—
Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
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One cheeky Instagram Reel sees the two sitting across from each other at a table as Bradford pretended to lecture Brunette.— Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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As a reluctant child of the Ain’t it Cool News era, the Drafthouse had long assumed some kind of legendary status in my mind.— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
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Investors have assumed that geopolitical tensions will eventually fade and markets will rebound.— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Boone said Carlos Rodón, set back by some hamstring tightness, simulated two innings in a bullpen session on Wednesday.— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
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The team members simulated different atomic arrays to get a sense of how fast each size could crack the two main encryption schemes, called Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC).— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Shammed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/shammed. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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