Thesaurus results for PLAYACT

playact

verb

as in to pose

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Recent Examples of playact Today, Margaret would be playacting her own massacre in active shooter drills at school. —

Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023 Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B. —

Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021 Today, this dynamic lives on in the form of Roblox strip clubs, where young people — mostly, minors — playact at adult sexuality. —

Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2021 The world had first required her to playact as a man. —

Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020 Yona has it better than the locals who have agreed to playact, and likely die, in Mui’s fake new disaster. —

Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020 Cloud is almost childlike, a boy playacting at being a warrior and not always nailing the part. —

Julie Muncy, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020

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Beyond that, Garrett said the move was driven by concerns – shared by many educators – that much of the homework students are assigned – especially in math – is needlessly repetitive, takes too long to complete and hasn't adapted to the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence.

— Ariel Gilreath, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
Bureau employees expressed concerns that his behavior posed a threat to public safety.

— Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026