make-believe


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Synonyms for make-believe

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Synonyms for make-believe

the presentation of something false as true

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Synonyms for make-believe

imaginative intellectual play

the enactment of a pretense

imagined as in a play

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'Make-believe, fictitious and false news stories will be spread by foreign agencies via social media,' he added.
Unfortunately, using make-believe water to justify massive increases in drought-year water use in the Klamath Basin would reduce real-life Klamath River flows by 48.2 billion gallons in a year when scientists have declared a fish kill "likely to occur" under the current flow plan.
And while nearly a third of adults (29%) thought their children preferred spending time playing on a computer, just 15% of kids chose computing as the best way to pass the time, compared to 22% who chose make-believe play.
According to the New York Daily News, Evans told KDVR-TV that he was merely playing a game during recess at the school when he threw an imaginary grenade into a box that contained make-believe evil forces.
Harris' 32-page informed and informative picturebook, "Maxfield Parrish: Painter of Magical Make-Believe" is specifically (and beautifully) designed to introduce a new generation of children to one of our country's most beloved illustrators who was, quite literally, a household name among the families of the 1920s.
Visitors were also given the chance to meet some make-believe heroes and villains from famous story books such as Captain Hook and the Big Bad Wolf.
Other adventures include taking a virtual drive up the mountain's auto road, climbing a bouldering wall and creating fog in a make-believe mountain valley.
Patrick Sweeney's November column "It's Only Make-Believe" was great, but don't stop now!
It's just the imagined, make-believe ramblings of people whose only real qualification is access to a pencil.
Create a colorful piece of artwork, showing us a real or make-believe place in the world you would like to go.
It may sound like science fiction, but the resulting sound quality is far from make-believe. The SwiMP3 is rechargeable, iTunes-compatible and comes with 1GB of storage space (approximately 250 songs]--plenty of room for all your favorite motivational tunes, making this gizmo a dream come true for all you water babies.
LONDON -- A top Roman Catholic cleric in England has accused Disney of corrupting children, encouraging greed and turning its make-believe world into a latter-day pilgrimage site.
BAUZ THAT: Hat-trick ace Guillem Bauza celebrates with a make-believe League One trophy after the Swans' 4-1
Get rid of make-believe police, make-believe teachers, make-believe doctors and make-believe nurses.
This is another version of what I call the Washington equation: make-believe equals survival.