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Recent Examples of role-play
Disco Elysium is a role-playing game set in the fictional Revachol—an impoverished seaside town that was decimated by a political revolution that occurred decades earlier.
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G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Avengers Reserve will sell superhero collectibles, clothing, comic books and role-playing toys.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 12 Nov. 2024
The Moon was transformed into miHoYo’s successful role-playing Honkai series, which found favor with the growing number of anime fans who have come online in China in the past decade.
—Yue Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
My only real concern is how newer players will handle the more old school style of Japanese role-playing games.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Avengers Reserve will sell superhero collectibles, clothing, comic books and role-playing toys.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 12 Nov. 2024
The Moon was transformed into miHoYo’s successful role-playing Honkai series, which found favor with the growing number of anime fans who have come online in China in the past decade.
—Yue Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
My only real concern is how newer players will handle the more old school style of Japanese role-playing games.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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That’s because there are only months left before President-elect Donald Trump gets back in the White House, where he’s promised to enact steep tariffs on imports.Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Some on the right have envied the ability of the identity-politics Left to seize the commanding heights of progressive politics and enact a top-down social revolution.Fred Bauer, National Review, 1 Dec. 2024
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During the Renaissance, people in Italy would act out live nativity scenes to help tell the Christmas story.Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2024
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Denzel is finally able to act out his one-time fantasy of portraying Jean-Jacques Dessalines in a movie about the Haitian revolution.Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
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And so a lot of overqualified actors keep getting stuck pantomiming her presence, deliberately evoking Ripley while reminding us what the series lost when its star finally put the feverish space chases behind her.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
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After calmly letting Larry extrapolate, Jerry pantomimes a short beep.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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The film dramatizes the Štrpci massacre of 1993, when 24 Bosniak Muslims were pulled off a train by a Serbian paramilitary group and only one man, the Croatian Tomo Buzov, stood up against the attackers.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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Bob Dylan is weighing in publicly for the first time on an upcoming biopic set to dramatize his early career.Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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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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Trump’s modus, as ever, was to playact; his game has always been improv.Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
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The Season 2 trailer depicts Gi-hun returning to the games, but using his experience to help others better survive the deadly challenges ahead.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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With a commitment to studying Pakistan’s majestic northern areas, the artist translates her learnings into fluid-like pieces that depict mountains, rivers and dreamlike gardens that seem to have a life of their own.Sonya Rehman, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Lawyers for Bhakta also represent two women who filed a lawsuit in June accusing Apple of systematically underpaying female workers in its engineering, marketing and AppleCare divisions.Daniel Wiessner, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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That’s according to an analysis commissioned by the National Retail Federation, a trade group representing retailers.Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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This lunation is ideal for setting new intentions for the year ahead, whether that means taking on a new look or reimagining the direction of your life.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Dec. 2024
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Led by boutique firm Langlois Design, the updates were focused mainly on the guest casitas, marking the first time the accommodations had been updated since 2008 — four years before the resort took on the Four Seasons name.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.
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