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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For it is a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe .
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So we can probably rule out the theory that he is indulging in a weekly exercise in make-believe .
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Some time there will have to be an end to this make-believe .
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Surely it was part of a make-believe , like imagining you were playing number three for Somerset?
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That word appearing is the key to understanding the congressional world of make-believe .
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The make-believe could be eliminated if Congress systematically traced its laws through the bureaucracy to see what finally happened after their enactment.
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The fact that Gelsomina is awakened only by costuming suggests her need-given the limitations of Personal life-to escape into make-believe .
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The staff had a hard time assuring him that is was all make-believe .