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• “By the way, several readers have had a thought about "community organizer," which some Dems have pretended is code for "black.”

  The Corner

• “Melas in his despatch spoke of what he called our pretended army of reserve with inconceivable contempt, and alluded to the presence of Bonaparte in Italy as a mere fabrication.”

  The Memoirs of Napoleon

• “No, they may laugh, they may smile at what they call his pretended sanctity, but in truth he is no hypocrite.”

  Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.

• “McCain pretended he had answering and left folks hanging hoping they vote for him to hear is resolutions ...”

  CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as president

• “Upon learning that Dwayne is a rapper, Palin pretended to recognize someone in the distance and excused herself.”

  The Huffington Post: Bunmi Zalob: The Answers Google Instant Search Can't Give You But I Can

• “Rooted in pretended grievances against the West mixed with rabidly anti-American sentiments, framed by bizarre conspiracy theories (many shared with the fringe constituency of the moonbat Left in the West) and outright paranoia, radical Islam has transformed its mother-religion by synthesizing these elements through the filter of Western revolutionary thought to create an ideological system for actuating Sorelian apocalyptic violence.”

  Think Progress » Matthews: War in Iraq United ‘the Disparate Pieces of Shia Radicalism into a Frankenstein Monster’

• “The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.”

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• “Inasmuch as lying involves pretended truth, the truth pretended is an imaginary antecedent.”

  Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces

• “Sandelin pretended to shoot at his ball in the hole and Mickelson thought he was being insulted.”

  Ryder Cup notebook

• “But Rilla believed it, for all that; and Mrs. Blythe believed it; and the doctor, though he smiled faintly in pretended derision, felt an odd confidence replace his first despair; and foolish and absurd or not, they all plucked up heart and courage to carry on, just because a faithful little dog at the Glen station was still watching with unbroken faith for his master to come home.”

  Rilla of Ingleside

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