PLAYING OUT Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

playing out

verb

Definition of playing out next

present participle of play out

as in spending

to make complete use of we've finally played out the leftovers from that huge holiday meal

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Recent Examples of playing out Players playing out of position in the midfield has created a patchwork. —

Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026 That theme is playing out in metro Denver, where three of the five projects are going up in Cherry Creek, which has avoided the downturn hitting the rest of Denver since the pandemic. —

Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026 Both are the product of one of the longest-running battles on Earth, playing out in soil. —

Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026 There’s clearly so much interior strife and uncertainty playing out in her head, but the performance can only bring so much of it to the surface. —

Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026 So, with Paul and Mortensen’s latest mess playing out in real time in the public sphere, what is the point of watching her pretend to search for romance on The Bachelorette? —

Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026 That tension is playing out most clearly over the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that serves as one of the world’s most critical energy choke points, with roughly one-fifth of global oil supplies passing through it each day. —

Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026 That late flourish put the university in the awkward position of watching a lame duck coach succeed and became a cautionary tale for athletic departments about the downside of playing out the string. —

Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2026 The decline of Buzzfeed’s digital empire, synonymous with viral videos and online quizzes, has been playing out since its IPO in 2021. —

Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026

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Despite spending the majority of his life in North Carolina and part of his youth in Charlotte, Miller noted that the 49ers’ campus was completely different from his last time turning off Highway 49.

— Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
Newer models have refined the design and added more high-tech features, but the iPhone X offers that iconic modern-day iPhone aesthetic for much cheaper; instead of spending close to $1,000, this model costs less than $165.

— Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026