played (upon)

past tense of play (upon)

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Verb
  • Vulnerabilities in those systems have been exploited in high-profile attacks across DeFi.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • By the end of the episode, Isaac is dead, Nibs has had part of her memory wiped, and Slightly has been manipulated by Morrow into letting one of the face-huggers turn Arthur into a Xenomorph incubator.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Played (upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/played%20%28upon%29. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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