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"ref": "1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 580",
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"ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘New Kid on the Block’ [season 4, episode 8; originally aired 12 November 1992]”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-09-18",
"text": "When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.",
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"sense": "false, contrived or assumed purpose",
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"roman": "pinggye",
"sense": "false, contrived or assumed purpose",
"word": "핑계"
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"code": "sv",
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"word": "svepskäl"
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"sense": "false, contrived or assumed purpose",
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "false, contrived or assumed purpose",
"word": "cớ"
},
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"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "false, contrived or assumed purpose",
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"word": "esgus"
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"text": "The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.",
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"ref": "1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261",
"text": "Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.",
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "preteksti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "etwas vorgeben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "einen Vorwand verwenden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "etwas vorschützen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "etwas vorspiegeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "so tun, als ob"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "amátlah",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "אמתלה"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "whakataruna"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "pretextar"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "mượn cớ"
}
],
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"Pretexting",
"en:pretext"
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