role-played

variants also roleplayed
past tense of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-played
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The dehumanization of Black people represented by the persistence of Confederate iconography in mainstream culture became an underground signifier of the precariousness of the freedoms enshrined by the 14th Amendment.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The continuing tremors represented a sharp increase from the more than 47 aftershocks reported by Rivera during a Friday afternoon news conference.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Two Black men are rendered in graphite, eyes closed, mouths open with yearning, disclosing sighs of ecstasy or prayer.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In 1991, Saint Laurent closed his fall-winter 1991 Rive Gauche runway show with a finale parade rendered almost entirely in gold fabrics.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • 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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“Role-played.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-played. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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