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pretext
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    The pretext was that they had evicted a trespasser.†  (source)
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    The field commandant will hold the shuttle here until dawn on a pretext.†  (source)
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    Robb wants me safe, I cannot fault him for that, but his pretext is growing threadbare.†  (source)
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    Then, under the pretext of bringing in aid, they could legitimately enter Pakistan and spy on all our secrets.†  (source)
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    The rest of us were constantly being beaten in the most savage way, on the most frivolous pretexts, but never Sebastian.†  (source)
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    Pretexting an appointment one afternoon, for he was not a little ashamed of his weakness, he left Dunsford and went straight to the shop which he had vowed never again to enter.†  (source)
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    On the pretext that the private office was needed for something else, Miep took Mr. Dussel upstairs, opened the bookcase and stepped inside, while Mr. Dussel looked on in amazement.†  (source)
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    Like you, sir, I have abandoned that pathetic faith with its pretexts and evasions.†  (source)
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    After breakfast he left the house under the pretext of wanting to tell August the latest developments.†  (source)
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    On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.†  (source)
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    And yet every time I devised some pretext to get her on her own, here he came, thump thump thump, sheepish grin, arm around her shoulder, wrecking everything.†  (source)
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    It's dispiriting, the way she invents pretexts.†  (source)
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    Chacko was a self-proclaimed Marxist He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously.†  (source)
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