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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Aluminum targets tougher battery demands The coated aluminum can be used for battery enclosures and casings, where corrosion protection can help improve component durability.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
The disclosure on Thursday, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came as Anthropic published a new set of data that showed a rapid increase in how much the lab used AI to develop its new models.

— Cristina Criddle, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026

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That imbalance, if exploited with sufficient force, would produce concessions on trade flows, investment, and the rules governing global competition.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Defensively, Chelsea ruthlessly exploited loose marking and errors, and the scoreline could have been even more painful without some fine saves by goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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That body, established in 2017 in response to the crimes of Larry Nassar, the Michigan physician who serially abused young gymnasts, can investigate misconduct, including nonsexual misconduct, in any Olympic sport.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Two other people claimed to have been abused by the artist during their childhood, according to Libération, but are also not included in the case headed to trial because the incidents took place too far in the past.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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Dimensions 8 and 24 harbor special symmetries that the researchers leveraged to cram them with spheres.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
According to the former trade officials who wrote the brief to the CIT, however, the trade statute was never intended to be leveraged this way.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

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While companies can license those characters for interactive experiences — one hypothetical Thomson offered was a Waymo with the voice of Prime — those can’t be manipulated in the way many unauthorized clips of Hasbro characters have been.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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