Word: pretended
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...been effective in the sense that it has helped raise awareness. Obviously, we cannot pretend that we have achieved everything the Kyoto agreement had in mind, but the awareness is there. People realize that unless we take steps to arrest climate change, we are heading toward catastrophic consequences that will be irreversible...
Szostak's two colleagues were Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins. Apparently, the three had begun working together on the topic back in the 1980s, when none of us were even alive, much less pretentious enough to pretend that we actually know what telomerase is or what it does...
Szostak's two colleagues were Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins. Apparently, the three had begun working together on the topic back in the 1980s, when none of us were even alive, much less pretentious enough to pretend that we actually know what telomerase is or what it does...
...honestly thought that it would not happen at all and that [Martin] was just being friendly,” he says. “It was sort of validating since we spent all this time talking about it, thinking about it, trying to pretend that it was real, and then it did end up being real...
...It’s just nice to pretend we’re in a very different state of mind,” he said, reminiscing on his summer in Germany. “Munich’s a very different city...