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How to upgrade your favorite sandwichAs many of us did, I channeled my covid anxiety into cooking and eating, using the pandemic as a pretext — okay, an excuse — to abandon dietary discipline temporarily, especially in the carb department.

For Kavovit, that design was symbolic, as she considered that many of the women who say they were harassed or assaulted by Weinstein say they were brought behind closed doors under the pretext of work meetings.

From Fortune

Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney suggested Sunday that Florida State officials used a positive coronavirus test by a Tigers player Friday as a pretext to get out of a game they preferred not to play.

In April, the president signed a decree, imploring telecoms companies to handover data on 226 million Brazilian citizens to the state statistical organization under the pretext of monitoring income and employment during the pandemic.

The 16-person crew booked an airplane under the pretext of flying to Stockholm for a wedding.

From Ozy

Maula Bux himself was killed in 2006, after being lured across the border by Iranian forces on the pretext of a drug deal.

But now everything was a good pretext to vent the rebellious mood.

Some Syrian rebel groups maintain that the Americans invented Khorasan as a pretext for the attack.

But he warned against using the pretext of defense to launch vast campaigns of destruction.

That pretext may have come with the violence that erupted in the port city of Odessa on yesterday.

Both had appealed to Napoleon; consequently there was a decent pretext for sending a French army into Spain.

That is a very flimsy pretext, so that the fiscals may not perform their duties faithfully against the governor.

And for this reason the first help should be given to this State, and not to what has the pretext of piety.

She had a daughter who served her as a pretext for cultivating the society of young men of fashion.

She might have invented a pretext for staying away; she might even invent a pretext now for going.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pretext, such as: alibi, excuse, guise, ploy, pretense, and ruse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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