playacted

past tense of playact

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for playacted
Verb
  • Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, officials are pausing data center development for one year, with vocal neighbors arguing that the risk posed by a controversial project outweigh the threat of litigation.
    Conor Wight, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • Stanhope is posed next to a young Black man presumed to be a servant of Stanhope.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Heidi Montag posed in a completely sheer naked dress made out of nothing but gold netting for a major career announcement.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 20 June 2026
  • My personal favorite piece from the collection is this adorable side table made out of birchwood plywood.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Franco's new followers were quick to flood into the comment section with their suspicions that there was more to the posts than the actor was letting on.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
  • And is Kadri hurting more than anybody has let on publicly?
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But the celebration was put on hold as officials reviewed the video, and the goal was nullified.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026
  • Hassan Al -Tambakti was just checked out by medics and in the 31st minute is being put on a stretcher and taken off field.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Earlier that day, Parker — who had pretended to be pregnant for 10 months — stabbed her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock 15 times, then performed a crude cesarean section, cutting the fetus out of her body with a scalpel and removing it from her uterus.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • In what prosecutors believe was a ploy to keep her boyfriend Wade Griffin, Parker pretended to be pregnant with their child.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Street vendors offer lower prices compared to his, which have been affected by high inflation.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • There was not a single prospect available, or even theoretically available, who would have positively affected winning in the immediate future more than Lendeborg.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The Smith Family Foundation has played a leadership role in Trenton, New Jersey, for a decade.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • This time green and red shared the spotlight as Algeria played Austria in a Group J match, the final one that determined who would advance to the knockout stage.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • In an effort to conceal the causes of death, Sit impersonated the owners and had the dogs cremated, according to prosecutors.
    Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • The former Smiths frontman first voiced his concerns about being impersonated online in April 2025.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
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“Playacted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playacted. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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