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Recent Examples of role-play
Overall, Front Mission 3: Remake is a solid update to a classic mecha tactical role-playing game from the PlayStation era.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
LLMs can role-play in remarkably human-like fashion: Research by Stanford and Google published earlier this year suggests that LLMs are able to simulate individual personalities closely enough to respond to certain types of surveys with 85% accuracy as the individuals themselves.
—François Candelon, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Gaming becomes a player Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
Special Screenings section
A world-famous role-playing game developed by Prague’s Warhorse Studios makes its cinematic debut as a film specially created for the Karlovy Vary festival.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
Lek likens the experience to entering the physical version of a free-roaming role-playing game.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
LLMs can role-play in remarkably human-like fashion: Research by Stanford and Google published earlier this year suggests that LLMs are able to simulate individual personalities closely enough to respond to certain types of surveys with 85% accuracy as the individuals themselves.
—François Candelon, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Gaming becomes a player Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
Special Screenings section
A world-famous role-playing game developed by Prague’s Warhorse Studios makes its cinematic debut as a film specially created for the Karlovy Vary festival.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
Lek likens the experience to entering the physical version of a free-roaming role-playing game.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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Some updates are needed Much has changed in the decades since Congress wrote the law, but Congress has not enacted updates to keep up.—
Anna Kirkland,
The Conversation,
15 Aug. 2025
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Congress enacted these subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure people had health insurance.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Adding a meta layer, when Brazilians see their compatriots act out this complex, preening for attention, this triggers even more chagrin about being Brazilian.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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Instead, face up to the facts and act out of a sense of responsibility.—
Danijela Pilic,
Glamour,
10 July 2025
Verb
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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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Drawing from the real-life Lisbon Maru incident of October 1942, the film dramatizes events when an American submarine accidentally torpedoed a Japanese vessel transporting approximately 1,800 British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 July 2025
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The film dramatizes this downward spiral through the experience of a man consumed by anxiety about how his community is shifting around him.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2025
Verb
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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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His work, in turn, was a bronze version of a colorful fountain made of cement, also depicting the three kneeling women, and which, from 1931 to 1965, had been on display at the center of Morelia.—
Eric Adler
August 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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Meta’s guidelines declared that depicting adults, including the elderly, receiving punches or kicks was acceptable.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Board member Mike Goodman, who represents the San Tan Valley area, was thrilled with the unofficial results.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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More states are waiting in the wings, said John Hewitt, senior vice president of state affairs for the Consumer Brands Association, which represents major food companies such as Kraft Heinz.—
Cheyenne Haslett,
ABC News,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Las Vegas Aces (19-14) make the short trip to Arizona to take on the Phoenix Mercury (19-12) at PHX Arena on Friday night in a pivotal matchup for WNBA playoff seeding.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Miami Dolphins take on the Detroit Lions at 1 p.m. on Saturday.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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