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Noun
  1. plural of pretense
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Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods.
This is music to play when you're at the cottage, when all your defenses and pretenses are left back in the city.
The fraudsters are looking to gain identity and banking information from the victim so bank accounts can be accessed through false pretenses.
After all its just a thrown together bunch of experiences with the narrowest of pretenses holding it all together.
Many thought he had dragged the country into an unnecessary war on pretenses of a threat that did not exist.
In lucid prose, he shreds pretenses and pretexts and demands consistent, bright lines.

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