as in pretended
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well
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pretended
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Humanoid robots shadowboxed, danced and pretended to run small shops.—
Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
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Other times the chasers have pretended to be the COVID-19 virus.—
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“Dissimulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulated. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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