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Recent Examples of role-play
But what your average gooner is up to is basically a kind of sad, confusing role-play.
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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
The children’s component will also allow for young people to connect with older relatives using multicultural hand puppets in role-play storytelling.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, the streamer announced that the iconic toy companies will introduce a wide range of toys, collectibles, games, role-play products, and more for fans of all ages to bring the world of HUNTR/X into their own homes.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
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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
The children’s component will also allow for young people to connect with older relatives using multicultural hand puppets in role-play storytelling.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, the streamer announced that the iconic toy companies will introduce a wide range of toys, collectibles, games, role-play products, and more for fans of all ages to bring the world of HUNTR/X into their own homes.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
Verb
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Inside, organizers enacted extreme heat protocols, forcing closure of the retractable roofs over the main arenas and postponement of matches on the uncovered outer courts.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Lawmakers were pushing a measure, similar to those enacted in Australia and Canada, that would have forced tech giants to pay online publishers for the ransacking, er, use, of their journalistic content.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Roper acts out this realization about [Teddy’s allegiance].—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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This form of compassion helps prime us to act out our compassionate concern for others.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 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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The script stemmed from the desire to dramatize some situations and also the desire to shoot those scenes.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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The spectacles in Tianjin and Washington dramatize a world in which major powers increasingly rely on public theatre, transactional bargains, and the symbolism of court-like diplomacy to project hierarchy and distribute favor.—
Pratap Bhanu Mehta,
Time,
15 Jan. 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
Verb
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The incident occurred just hours before dozens of flyers depicting former Prince Andrew were briefly scattered around the village of Dedham ahead of the royal visit, The Times reported.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Our family photographs depicted us in beauty, power and wholeness, rejecting every image that attempted to relegate us to a stereotype.—
Anya Sesay,
jsonline.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Overall, this study represents a new direction for finding TTE materials, paving the way for efficient waste heat recovery systems for a greener future.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Pat Patriot, a costumed character representing a Revolutionary War soldier, according to the New England Patriots.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Recently, Katie Holmes proved the hypothesis true, stepping out in a supremely elegant take on classic flats that's guaranteed to have a popularity surge come spring.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
31 Jan. 2026
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Once used as a form of punishment for prisoners, this kind of training has taken on many forms for more than a century.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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