as in analyses
a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)
on Monday mornings she usually gives her coworkers a detailed play-by-play on how her weekend date went
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Noun
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However, the analyses from the Yale Budget Lab and the Tax Policy Center assume that the tariffs the court ruled on aren’t replaced with other tariffs.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026 -
Unlike the city of Poway, which favors hitching posts over parking meters, San Diego has elected to ignore all rational analyses of parking fee options, in favor of looking at parking as a cash cow.—
Harvey Levine,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Judge Biery’s footnote directing readers to Blackstone’s commentaries and Magna Carta may be intended to give a remedial lesson to members of the administration.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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The commentaries between the president and the governor, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, also came on the same day Newsom was denied entry to the USA House, despite being scheduled to speak at a fireside chat with Fortune Media.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
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Such observations suggest that rain or thunderstorms could develop, followed by a northerly wind shift that brings falling temperatures and clearer skies.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Play-by-plays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/play-by-plays. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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