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Recent Examples of playlet
The novelty of a concrete pier was celebrated in a September 1909 gala opening, with a playlet starring Queen Santa Monica and Rex Neptune.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2024
The playlets each have from one to three actors in them and are each inspired by, but not about, a different painting.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
26 Feb. 2024
The chance to do more of it presented itself during the pandemic, when Monahon worked on virtual playlets for the 24 Hour Plays.
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Rhoda Feng,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2023
Shaffer had seen in Pushkin’s playlet the rudiments of a grand spectacle, framed, like so many of his plays, as a duel between two men of different generations.
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Simon Callow,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Dec. 2022
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2024
The playlets each have from one to three actors in them and are each inspired by, but not about, a different painting.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
26 Feb. 2024
The chance to do more of it presented itself during the pandemic, when Monahon worked on virtual playlets for the 24 Hour Plays.
—
Rhoda Feng,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2023
Shaffer had seen in Pushkin’s playlet the rudiments of a grand spectacle, framed, like so many of his plays, as a duel between two men of different generations.
—
Simon Callow,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playlet
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His warnings contrasted starkly with the brief but glorious interludes of culinary fabulism that punctuated our travel down South.
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And young Bochner is understandably queasy in his delivery of the poetic lines he’s been handed for these same interludes.
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Today, the public largely remembers Holmes through magazine covers, courtroom sketches, documentaries, and television dramatizations.
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In this dramatization, Rosemary will be played by Lydia Peckham and Tipper Seifert-Cleveland.
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The World Cup knockout rounds have begun and there has been no shortage of drama!
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All that intense drama unfolded after Balogun’s ejection, which came upon a replay review (Video Assistant Referee).
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The apocalyptic horror comedy Zombieland (2009) was a box office hit.
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The ceremony was officiated by friend of the couple Adam Sandler, whom Travis Kelce starred alongside in the 2025 comedy Happy Gilmore 2.
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The plots of Roman romance novels are full of heightened melodrama.
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The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.
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Set in Shanghai, the film is a tragicomedy about a mother and daughter grieving their loss while trying to act normal.
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“Playlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playlet. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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