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What does pretexting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of pretext
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Abu Bakr, pretexting the ties of blood uniting victors and vanquished, was of opinion that a ransom should be accepted.
At the entrance, Verelst, pretexting a pretext, sagely dropped out.
Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, emphasized on Monday that the state's inquiry remains focused exclusively on pretexting.
As evidenced by In re Pautler and In re Hurley, however, it is not clear whether pretexting is a permissible tool under the Rules of Professional Conduct.
The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
But she says she didn't know about the pretexting until late June, when she saw an e-mail to Perkins from HP's outside counsel, Larry Sonsini.

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