noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
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The result is a passionate, deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion.
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Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one.
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John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential.
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Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion.
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She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.
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She was an adventuress, unabashedly ambitious, totally without pretense , searching for fame.
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The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.
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The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense .