Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• I acknowledge the pretense to civility... in a man so brutally vicious... as vapid and grotesque.
• When they have political motive, they use it as a pretense to hang men.
• The scientific method has no special connection to truth.
• We just need a pretense to talk to him.
• Though I suppose if the value is great enough, it would give you pretense to move against him and call it business instead of calling it what it actually is.
• Gowest is clearly using this as a pretense to cover their own negligence.
• I have clients who didn't hire me under fraudulent pretenses To help.
• A true gentleman invents a pretense to lure an honorable lady into his apartment.

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