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Tip: Gender of German nouns:
{m} = der, {f} = die, {n} = das, {pl} = die

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Sie war nicht krank. Das war nur ein Vorwand, um nicht in die Schule zu müssen. She wasn't sick. It was just a ploy / a subterfuge to avoid having to go to school.

Die Besprechung war nur ein Vorwand, um ihn aus seinem Büro zu locken. The meeting was a ploy / a subterfuge to get him out of his office.

Von "Selbstinszenierung", "provokanter Selbstvermarktung" und "PR-Masche" ist in anderen Veröffentlichungen die Rede. [G] Other publications have spoken of "self-advertisement", "provocative self-selling" and a "PR ploy".

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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