PLAYED (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 25 Similar Words

played (on or upon)

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past tense of play (on or upon)

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to take unfair advantage of the candidate played on the voters' prejudices

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Privacy can restore you when it is chosen, not used as a hiding place.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2026
Rule 10 - The Banana Ball challenge rule Each manager gets one challenge per game that can be used at any moment — and the challenge is kept if the manager was correct.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 27 July 2026

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On the receiving end, Hugging Face reported that a malicious dataset abused two code execution paths in its processing pipeline - a remote-code loader and a template injection in a dataset configuration.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Alice notes that the women were not allowed to bathe or even eat every day; the women were captives, treated like animals, and the men who abused them never faced any consequences.

— Erin Qualey, Vulture, 27 July 2026

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The island nation has in recent years leveraged its geographical proximity to the Middle East to act as the EU’s gateway to the region and has forged closer ties with many countries, particularly with Israel on energy and defense.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Cooper and co-owner Krysta Morgan leveraged early social media, then shifted to community events, prioritizing product integrity and avoiding the risks of outside investment, as seen with Beautycounter's bankruptcy post-Carlyle acquisition.

— Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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The lawsuit also alleges that Penske and Boehly manipulated and misused California’s nonprofit laws.

— Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 29 July 2026
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reported that AI training data and inputs are being manipulated and warned that attackers could influence model behavior by corrupting the information AI systems rely upon.

— Syed Ali, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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