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When a press release informed me Howie had scheduled a brief homecoming, I feigned a news hook: If I could interview him by phone, I would write a feature about "Stuck Rubber Baby."

Ms Heer said Harris "feigned ignorance" by sending two messages to the victim asking what had happened.

He put two pupils into headlocks and also feigned a punch and kick at one of them, the court heard.

The Republican nominee responded with feigned ignorance: "Uh, I don't know the situation."

Moreover, Stewart highlighted various statements from the U.S. and foreign policy officials who have feigned ignorance saying the U.S. was unaware when Israel would deploy these bombs, claiming, "it was not involved in these incidents."