How to Use at play in a Sentence

at play

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• There’s two things at play here.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2025
• There is quite a bit of chaos still at play.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
• There is a quieter irony at play, too.
  — Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
• The biggest trends at play for next spring?
  — Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
• But there’s a showbiz wild card at play.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
• There was something else at play.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• But that does not mean there was not a quid pro quo at play, too.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• This novel is the work of a thinker at play.
  — Mj Franklin, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• There’s a feedback loop at play, though.
  — Ayana Underwood, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
• There have been much greater problems at play.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2025
• That may be the very issue at play, though.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
• Looking back, though, there was more at play.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
• That doesn't mean romance isn’t at play this month.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
• That’s the Elvis factor at play.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
• There’s no sort of other genre at play, at least for the first act kind.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026
• Some profit-taking may be at play here as well.
  — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
• All sorts of politics are at play here.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
• The challenge is how many variables are at play.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
• And so all of those things were at play in creating the band.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
• Meanwhile, there’s also a risk of hype at play.
  — Neil Callanan, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
• But there are other factors at play.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• There was also an agenda at play.
  — Bill Donahue, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026
• Was there a regional bias at play?
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
• That is really what's at play here.
  — NBC news, 26 Oct. 2025
• But other factors were at play, too.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026
• There may be, in fact, multiple pieces of new physics at play.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
• Like so many things in science, there are two effects at play here.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
• Sometimes both factors have been at play.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
• That’s the double whammy at play here.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• This new study proposes that changes in both shape and speed are at play.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025