Thesaurus results for ROLE-PLAYED

role-played

verb

variants also roleplayed

past tense of role-play

as in pantomimed

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In subsequent decades, Congress enacted a series of major reductions to the estate tax.

— Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Some states, including California, have enacted measures about AI, including requiring entities to be transparent when it is used.

— Chandelis Duster, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of enacted

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Some of the stories are just spoken matter-of-factly, while others are acted out with Jaku doing all the voices.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Whether defendant Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty — or for his attorneys in taking that punishment off the table.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of acted out

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The Rock Art Trail is fun and educational, as is trying to identify what some of the animals depicted are.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
On tabletops with less abstract design, such as one with a skull depicted, differences in glazing and firing mean there are variations in the hue and colors.

— Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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They were rendered invisible in the dominant discourse, their deaths acceptable costs in a game of power politics and conquest.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Abercrombie, who was born in Texas in 1909 and grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, is known for enigmatic, psychologically potent compositions of natural objects and mysterious figures rendered in a muted palette.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of rendered

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Those emotions certainly were appropriate following Miami’s closer-than-expected 15-10 loss in Minnesota on Sunday, a game in which the defense played valiantly and Ollie Gordon reached the 100-yard mark.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
The reporting on such matters is well-established, in the stories of Wall Street Journal journalist Jeff Horwitz (played here by Jeremy Allen White) and many others.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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