How to pronounce“pretext”in English
and Order and a kind of sort of uh this this this whole kind of security oriented society that we live in there be no you know it's like eliminates any
pretext for social control and I think that's what people you know politicians and sort of um uh powermongers they don't want that they want as many
protects for social control as possible so I think they're they're happy to keep staging this phony War on Drugs for as long as as long as it goes on
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Definitions of “pretext”
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
“The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.”
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
“The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.”
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