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Recent Examples of role-play
Interpreting the prompt as a role-play scenario, Max raised the BB gun and fired.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
The set comes with 23 bricks, including interchangeable 8 facial expressions and 4 wig bricks for endless social and emotional role-play.
—Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 28 Nov. 2025
But what your average gooner is up to is basically a kind of sad, confusing role-play.
—Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Bengtsen 1 hour 35 minutes Lo began her inquiry with mistress dispeller Wang Zhenxi, who brings a fascinating mix of insight, compassion and role-play to her work.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
The set comes with 23 bricks, including interchangeable 8 facial expressions and 4 wig bricks for endless social and emotional role-play.
—Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 28 Nov. 2025
But what your average gooner is up to is basically a kind of sad, confusing role-play.
—Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Bengtsen 1 hour 35 minutes Lo began her inquiry with mistress dispeller Wang Zhenxi, who brings a fascinating mix of insight, compassion and role-play to her work.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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No waiver is in place for the 2026-27 academic year, however, so a final year of college basketball for Buchanan will hinge on whether something similar will be enacted again for non-NCAA transfers.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Apr. 2026
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In setting new standards for the film-and-television industry, while also raising wages and benefits, this agreement was precisely the sort of thing Dube is advocating for other sectors to adopt, even though it was enacted through collective bargaining rather than by government action.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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If previous records massaged her hedonism into silky, professional-grade pop, the sound on WOR$T GIRL is all sinew and scrap metal, a leaner and meaner vehicle for acting out.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
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Bimbofication is the act of dressing like an attractive dumb woman and acting out the part.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Walking back to our site, Casper pantomimed catching a trout.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
7 Aug. 2025
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And Brunson kept up the energy through the show that followed, delivering some devastatingly personal compliment sandwiches during a leadership summit and frantically pantomiming elaborate insults while parked on a ferry.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
4 May 2025
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With Trump back in office, American audiences are understandably more closely watching films from distant lands that dramatize authoritarianism, seeking clues from those nations’ past to understand our present.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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There was no contradiction for these women in using sacred imagery to dramatize erotic love, or Scripture to sanctify desire.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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Today, Margaret would be playacting her own massacre in active shooter drills at school.—
Petula Dvorak,
Washington Post,
1 May 2023
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Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2021
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One video pinned to his profile depicts him on a wild boar hunt, smoking a cigar.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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The studded headpiece depicts the sacrifice of a lamb and is considered a national treasure.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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For its 310 students and more than 80 children from infants to toddlers, Greenland represents a second chance at school that is free from stigma and, experts say, a model for how young mothers can be reintegrated into education.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Primarily considered a test mission, Artemis II could represent a giant step toward NASA's goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Prepare to take on a leadership role.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
5 Apr. 2026
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Bar advocates are private lawyers who take on the cases of indigent defendants on a contract basis.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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