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Pretext Pronunciation

Pronounce Pretext as P R EH T EH EH K S T.

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    Pretext phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'pretext'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of pretext: /prɛtɛkst/
    • Modern IPA representation of pretext: /prɛtɛxt/

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    List of meaning for pretext

    a fake excuse or reason

    pretext, stalking-horse(noun)

    something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

    guise, pretense, pretence, pretext(noun)

    an artful or simulated semblance

    "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

    a false ground that you give to hide why you are really doing something

    The leaders used a minor clash at the border as a pretext for war.

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    pretext in sentence

    1. The shy boy thought of a school-related pretext just so he could text his attractive classmate.

    2. Under pretext of being a police officer, the gang member gained entry into the rival gang leader’s apartment.

    3. Ann’s former company fired her under the pretext of poor work ethics after she filed sexual harassment charges against her boss.

    4. Art’s pretext for being late to work involves a sick child he does not have.

    5. If the attorney wants to win the case and earn Ann a nice settlement, he must prove the pretext for the termination really was false.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term pretext

    No one should ring the alarm bell that these protests will cause civil war, they (leaders) have made the institutions dysfunctional under the pretext of preserving stability but collecting garbage, providing water, electricity must not be neglected.

    – Gibran Araiji

    Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

    – Ernest Renan

    If, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another's religion, we're equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are the targets of such attacks, to infringe on one right under the pretext of protecting another is a betrayal of both.

    – President Barack Obama

    The risk is that the parallel rate will depreciate even more, giving the marketers a pretext for yet further price increases at the pump.

    – Alan Cameron

    On May 8, for the first time, the people of Ukraine will join the European tradition to commemorate the victims of World War Two, the very next day in Moscow, under the pretext of the Great Victory, the aggressor's army will brandish its lethal might in front of the world. Some of the units were in Donetsk a few days ago and soon they will appear on the military parade in Moscow.

    – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

    But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

    – Herbert Butterfield

    When I was living in Russia a few years ago, all these activities were used as a pretext to monitor the communication of Russian citizens and then in many cases used to suppress dissidents and liberal thinking individuals.

    – Pavel Durov

    Meat-eaters are not a protected class under constitutional law, so they would not be able to raise a discrimination claim unless they could link to ‘ disparate impact, ’ meaning that landlords say they’re screening out meat-eaters but it’s actually a pretext for screening out people of color or a particular gender.

    – Michele Hunter

    Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. ...[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land.

    – Chief Justice John Marshall

    Yesterday's rally was a bit overdone and investors are taking profit as they prepare for the holiday. Lower oil prices this morning and weaker U.S. markets gave the pretext to sell, looking forward, I expect volatility to persist in the coming sessions but the market could gain some strength as we move into 2016.

    – Stephan Rieke

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