role-played

variants also roleplayed
past tense of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-played
Verb
  • Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration had enacted a supplementary budget of 3 trillion yen to shield households from rising energy costs, months after passing the yearly budget.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • While the Supreme Court lifted tariffs on many goods, ruling that the executive order used to impose them was unconstitutional, tariffs on auto parts were enacted under a different authority, and remain in place.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • All of us deserve to feel seen and represented on the big screen and to be able to buy tickets and see a film with our community, so my goal beyond the release is to be able to [create] more accessibility for representation like this.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 June 2026
  • Almost every World Cup matchup has a storyline of a player who could have represented another country.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Prosecutors alleged that Chow acted out of a false belief that Carmack-Belton had shoplifted four bottles of water from his store.
    Jeana Fermi, ABC News, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Bradley the author eventually conceded that his research had been faulty and that the flag-raising in which his father had been involved was photographed by a Marine photographer earlier on the morning of February 23, 1945, and that Doc Bradley was not depicted in the famous Rosenthal photo.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 June 2026
  • Puck reports that other key figures depicted in the film include OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Traditional dubbing pipelines have struggled to keep pace with microdrama’s release cadence, and existing AI dubbing tools have drawn criticism for flat or artificially rendered performances.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • If unethical actors can deploy custom frontier AI models to aggressively interrogate smart contracts and find hidden protocol flaws, human-only defensive audits will be rendered obsolete.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • The smallest nation by size (171 square miles) and population — 158,000, or twice the size of Arrowhead Stadium’s capacity — stood with all fans as the national anthems for both teams played.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • Dalal said their son played there daily with his friends, taking advantage of a club policy that allows children under five to enter without a membership.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
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“Role-played.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-played. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.

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