role-played

variants also roleplayed
past tense of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-played
Verb
  • Florida enacted new laws cracking down on miscreants in the treatment industry.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 5 July 2026
  • Passed as the second of three Reconstruction amendments, the 14th Amendment was enacted after the Civil War.
    Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The demonstration also represented the public debut of the production version of Atlas in a live event following its introduction earlier this year at CES 2026.
    Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • The Braves will be well represented at the All-Star Game on July 14 in Philadelphia, and there’s a strong possibility there could be another Braves’ cap or two in the home dugout at Citizens Bank Park that day.
    Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • Eventually, the rewrite and actors workshop rehearsal combined — a two-week period in which Jones, McCormick, Wilde, Rogen, Cruz, and Norton acted out, improvised scenes, and, most importantly, talked about characters.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
  • In the video, Allie dramatically acted out both sides of the conversation, capturing the feeling of trying to extract a straightforward answer from her mom.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Assessing consumer sentiment among 10,000 respondents from the 11 countries that contribute the most to the luxury sector, the consultancy depicted a complex but more focused scenario.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
  • Stately Wayne Manor is depicted as a more gothic structure in most versions of the bat story.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • The rain had rendered the dirt tracks we were meant to use … um, unusable.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
  • The responding officers rendered first aid to the victims before they were taken to local hospitals.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • She has been featured in various TV shows, including an English show called Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), and played Desdemona in Broadway’s Othello before retiring in the early 1980s, per the Walt Disney Archives.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
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“Role-played.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-played. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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