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Guaranteed contracts aren’t about enrichment as much as they are about decency — which the league has feigned in its treatment of Hamlin.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2023

Will DeAngelo, who some law enforcement say has feigned frailty to garner sympathy, absorb what they have to say?

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2020

So he has feigned confusion at what all the fuss is about.

From Time • Jan. 20, 2011

He has feigned insanity twice and once arrived on a stretcher.

From Time Magazine Archive

The raven has croaked in a high-pitched, abnormal key; the jackdaw and canary have become silent and dejected, from time to time shivering; the magpie even has feigned death; the parrot has shrieked incessantly.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott