Example Sentences

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Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Looking at the tape of her statement, it is remarkable how smoothly she dissembles.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2019

Our country’s most prominent id rarely dissembles what he feels or believes.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2017

It felt like a startlingly on-the-nose metaphor for the strange act of going about routine tasks while the world dissembles.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

The orator, indeed, often prepares, dissembles, lies in wait, and says things in the first part of the pleading which he avails himself of in the last part.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville