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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pretex .
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Examples
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For the Hezballah, it's no problem to invent pretexes and to fight for Hamas/Iran.
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Of course, one cannot allow objective problems to be turned into excuses or pretexes to stop doing what could have been done at the time it could have been done and was not done.
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