charade

Mistaken identity is a central conceit of the genre, and FastHorse takes this charade to another intellectual level.

More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, here we are in the very same place we've been for endless years — on pause again, despite the endless charade of forward steps that go nowhere.

Now that the athletes are being paid through NIL and other means, it’s time to end the charade and divest the athletics from the academics.

David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.

“The effort was an attempt to stack the deck in Lachlan Murdoch’s favor after Rupert Murdoch’s passing so that his succession would be immutable,” Gorman wrote, calling Murdoch’s actions a “carefully crafted charade.”