How to pronounce “pretenses” in English

It'll make a lot of people drop a lot of their pretenses about race, ethnicity, and culture and who's really down for the cause.

war was similar to our current Iraq war and that it provided false pretenses and

And I have a bit of a confession to make-- I kind of got you all here under false pretenses, because as much as I would love to,

I decided I wasn't going to go trying to, under false pretenses, get into password protected suicide forums, for example.

And so I feel obliged to warn you at the outset that I am here under false pretenses if you think that I'm capable of communicating

Now first, I have to tell you I've lured you here under false pretenses.

And you can see, I'm already there, like, I've thrown away all my pretenses.