shams
- present tense form of sham (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In Minnesota, some Medicaid autism treatment centers, transportation providers and housing purveyors were shams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Typically, I reuse the inserts and rotate and store the shams.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Perrigo soon replaced the BDO auditors with ones from EY, who blessed the transactions, which federal regulators now claim are shams.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
He knows he can turn proceduralist rules into shams, and he knows most of his staff is either too constrained to do anything about it or unaware of what’s really going on.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2021
The history of race relations in Durham was, after all, a long line of such shams extending back for a century.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
