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Recent Examples of role-play
Salespeople attend workshops, memorize messaging, and role-play with colleagues — but these exercises rarely prepare them for the emotional turbulence of real customer conversations.
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Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Nowhere is this question more relevant than in the role-playing game genre.
—Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
Mythic Quest starred McElhenney as Ian Grimm, the creative director of a video game studio who created a popular online role-playing game.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 11 Apr. 2025
Since then, he's appeared in minor roles in a variety of films, also voicing Kurt in the role-playing video game Unlimited Saga.
—EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Nowhere is this question more relevant than in the role-playing game genre.
—Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
Mythic Quest starred McElhenney as Ian Grimm, the creative director of a video game studio who created a popular online role-playing game.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 11 Apr. 2025
Since then, he's appeared in minor roles in a variety of films, also voicing Kurt in the role-playing video game Unlimited Saga.
—EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
Verb
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Some lawmakers have argued that the act cannot be used by the president to enact tariffs.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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The 1970 Clean Air Act specifies that California can receive waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency to enact clean air standards that are tougher than federal limits because the state has historically been the most polluted air in the nation.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Sides were separated, and the officials determined nobody had acted out enough to warrant an ejection.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2025
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But, by high school, Weisberger started acting out at home and getting into trouble at school — and with the law — his father told the Herald in the months after Pascal’s murder.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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And Brunson kept up the energy through the show that followed, delivering some devastatingly personal compliment sandwiches during a leadership summit and frantically pantomiming elaborate insults while parked on a ferry.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
4 May 2025
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As Huff ran down the line, Bochy pumped his arms while pantomiming the Herman Munster trot.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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The four-part historical drama series dramatizes the story of Cassandra Austen burning her more-famous sister Jane’s personal letters (okay, Amy March from Little Women vibes!), turning it into an in-depth look at the complex love that can emerge between siblings.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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The show dramatizes the real story the Barnett family adopting Natalia Grace, a child with dwarfism, in 2010.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Today, Margaret would be playacting her own massacre in active shooter drills at school.—
Petula Dvorak,
Washington Post,
1 May 2023
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Trump’s modus, as ever, was to playact; his game has always been improv.—
Joe Klein,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2023
Verb
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Both have been about quote, unquote, love, even though neither show is depicting true love.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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The ways that sound, emanating from speakers or depicted on album covers, was interpolated with the visual was indeed one of the exhibition’s most entrancing aspects and radical critical interventions.—
Ivy G. Wilson,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Airlines for America, a group representing American Airlines and other U.S. carriers, in March urged the FAA to permanently reduce helicopter traffic around the airport.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Lifting the Carabao Cup in March to finally end their 56-year wait for a trophy represents a successful campaign for Eddie Howe’s Newcastle.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Truthfully, the Eagles are uniquely positioned to take on more risk than other teams because their roster is so strong.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The pledge was popular, also being taken on by his opponent Kamala Harris.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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