Many of the women have given birth before and use that experience to feign another pregnancy.

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Typically the predator will fall back to feign its own vulnerability and then, at the opportune moment, pounce.

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That, in essence, is the case for the outside world to feign indifference.

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Medical appointments, personal errands and quality time with friends and family were also good enough reasons to feign illness.

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She did not bother to feign interest in what I had written or, for that matter, what I was feeling.

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So far, the focus of reform has been to try to reduce the conflicts of interest that may encourage analysts to feign bullishness.

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It is also typical and very disingenuous for lawmakers to feign outrage and to have waited until a collapse has occurred before taking action.

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Fiennes himself plays the implacable general, who, unable to summon much love for the common people or to feign such feelings in smooth talk, is ejected from Rome.

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Candidates were supposed to feign reluctance, though not too insistently.

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Imagine the effort required for this man to feign interest in the idiotic ramblings of some member of Congress, next to whom the stupidest graduate student Mr Summers ever met was John Maynard Keynes.

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Our point is not -- I said this a week and a half ago -- our point is not to feign through method acting anger at what environmental and economic damage has been wrought by this disaster.

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Moreover, unlike some travel writers he is refreshingly honest about the tricks he plays, reflecting harshly on the moral weakness that leads him, briefly, to feign a Jewish identity in order to win the trust of the surviving Jews of Bukhara.

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On the other hand, why would this Rhodes scholar, Yale lawyer and venture capital maven feign ignorance about a matter as crucial to the health of a pension as the fees it pays?

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Responding to claims by Dundee United boss Craig Levein that some Hearts players feign injury, McGhee said they were no longer "at those games".

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