play (upon)

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Verb
  • State-of-the-art dilution refrigerators exploit mixtures of helium-3 and helium-4 to cool qubits down to millikelvin temperatures where fragile quantum states can persist.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That each and every one of us has a role to play in standing up against authoritarian powers that want to exploit our differences for their own gain.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The twilight of empire was also a time of conspiracy theories about international Jewish cabals, said to manipulate power through money and shadowy networks in order to rule the world.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Wood said that the Google is manipulating the market in a way that is antithetical to free market competition.
    Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Play (upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/play%20%28upon%29. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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