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What does pretends mean?

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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pretend
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The fact is Margaret never pretends to coherence despite her desire for posthumous fame.
She pretends to be innocent around my family but, at the mall, she's all flirty.
I'm starting to think she's just plain dumb and not the conservative intellectual she pretends to be.
There's an old man sitting on a float holding a fishing rod, to which is attached a small stuffed fish that he pretends to catch again and again.
Here, Lizzie pretends to be Isabella at an outrageously grandiose dress designer's studio.
Specifically, a four-flusher is someone who pretends to have a flush when he's really one card short.

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