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What are pretentions?

What are pretentions? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of pretention
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Nick Carraway, the protagonist and witness, hates the upper-class Buchanan set even more than  the silly pretentions of Gatsby, and is, in the end, the only one who remains by his side.
The Arbitrator may require from each party involved that it hands in, within a specified timeframe, a resume of their presentation along with any piece of evidence to sustain such pretentions.
European universalism traditionnaly confuses universalism with its own pretentions.
There may be recommendations, even pretentions.
That's fine for Autechre or whoever, but if you're a two-guitar four-piece with pretentions of going somewhere, it isn't enough to squirt out random noise and call it a song.
Doesn't the fact that the entire Security Council told Iraq that it has to disarm suggest that it, too, has pretentions of knowing what's best for the Iraqi people?

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