masquerades
- plural of masquerade.
- present tense form of masquerade (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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By 1717 he was soliciting his opera subscribers to buy tickets, eventually hosting six masquerades a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
But it all falls broadly under the same boring commodification of the idea of “mental health”: a sweatshirt or a lipstick or a funny TikTok video that masquerades as more than it is.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2023
Although the letter doesn’t clearly define pseudoscience, Lau notes that a “commonsensical definition” is that pseudoscience refers to “something that is not very scientifically supported, that masquerades as if it is already very scientifically established.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
For more than 50 years the dazzling feather outfits, extravagant headdresses and sparkling masquerades of the Notting Hill Carnival have filled the streets of west London.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023
It masquerades as a two-dollar word, but it’s really worth only about twenty cents.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
