How to Use pseudo in a Sentence

pseudo

adjective

• The sexiest bells and whistles on the Watch are the pseudo-medical devices.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• The new exiles formed various pseudo-state structures around her.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The parents and activists have organized through a new group called Bonds for the Win, which is named for a financial instrument at the heart of the pseudo-legal effort.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
• The film has a pseudo-literary construction, built, as a title card declares, in twelve chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• The pastel-blue armchair is part of a set that was designed by Parisian maker Georges Jacob in a pseudo-classical Etruscan manner.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• By the late 1780s, the queen had moved on from le goût chinois to the pseudo-classical Etruscan style, and proceeded to remodel her apartments at Versailles in this manner.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 16 Nov. 2022
• The league will quarantine participants and their guests in a pseudo-bubble hotel.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Nurses and home care workers in Ohio need facemasks, not pseudo-campaign flyer postcards.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
• The NFTs can be seen as a pseudo-war bond, where people can invest in the certificates of ownership for the digital assets as a debt-security.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2022
• There’s a lot of gruesome pseudo-medical procedures going on, including a shot of someone’s mouth being stitched up that will haunt our dreams.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• The downstairs display creates a modest, pseudo-domestic encounter, with a sofa, a couple of chairs, dim lighting and low ceilings.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 1 May 2021
• Despite his lifelong tangles with pseudo-religious groups and their prophets, Mr. Morantz never wavered from his belief that religion could be a force for good.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• Evidently, Fisher had moved on: the fibreglass ribs of a pseudo-Gothic pavilion were scattered on the grass near the swimming pool, awaiting construction.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Then there is its pseudo-serious side, where typists write stories about serious subjects, like climate change.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• Quantum physics has long been the go-to discipline for anyone in need of a pseudo-scientific justification for a quack theory.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• But given time, dark fantasy came to describe novels set in a pseudo-mythological past that was, for all intents and purposes, godless.
  — Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
• The best that CPUs can generate are pseudo-random numbers, churned out by running a seed number through a complex algorithm, then running the solution through the same operation over and over again.
  — Jonathon Keats, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2012
• By his senior season, Finley was like a pseudo-offensive coordinator for Ponchatoula, which had a roster of mostly sophomores that year.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2022
• Rather than trying to avoid a recession by keeping things running in a pseudo-normal manner and thereby accelerating the spread of coronavirus, the Trump administration should take the bitter medicine now of pushing for self-quarantines.
  — Bill George, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• And residents in some communities say they are alarmed by the rising profile of armed gatherings, provoking memories of the pseudo-military groups that spread violence in Charlottesville during 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2020
• Progressive statistics guru Nate Silver had for weeks issued pseudo-scientific analyses of a Trump wipeout.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 Nov. 2020
• Reynolds, who lived in Everman, south of Fort Worth, filed lengthy court briefings in his criminal case, sprinkled liberally with trademark pseudo-legal jargon common to sovereign citizens.
  — Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Police officers apprehend them unharmed and the mainstream media rushes to humanize them with pseudo-psychological analysis of a white male who is a troubled loner and victim of his own impulses.
  — Malika Redmond, Essence, 10 June 2021
• Such regressive tendencies have left Tarkovsky open to appropriation by the pseudo-religious illiberal ideology that has asserted itself in Putin’s Russia.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Sadly, the good intentions of many policy proposals are undermined by pseudo-scientific requirements.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Other recent polls have indicated that public belief in things like conspiracy theories or other pseudo-scientific phenomena are equally prevalent.
  — Sander Van Der Linden, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Democratic-republicanism ensures that the people and their representatives, instead of pseudo-scientific technocrats, make decisions.
  — Andy Smarick, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The pseudo-scientific formula that explains most human bonding is basically time + affection + togetherness = relationship.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 July 2021
• Freemasonry, intensely popular in the eighteenth century, had inherited from earlier pseudo Egyptology a fascination with pyramids and hieroglyphs, but it defanged the occult into something harmless enough to go on the back of the great seal of the sunny-side-up American republic.
  — Simon Schama, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2001

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