role-playing

variants also roleplaying
present participle of role-play

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The Republic could not get a straightforward answer to the question of how much money was being put toward enacting the plan's recommendations, despite multiple interviews and emailed requests to state employees charged with implementing them.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The league this season is enacting several parts of the new collective bargaining agreement even those the full CBA doesn’t go into effect until the 2026-27 season.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During her latest podcast episode, Cunningham continued to speak out, calling out the league boss for acting out of self-interest.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Many adults can remember acting out scenes as doctor and patient, or using sticks and leaves as imaginary currency.
    Ekaterina Muravevskaia, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Human runners, wearing 7-foot-tall foam costumes with goofy faces and colorful features depicting a Bratwurst, Polish, Italian, Hot Dog and Chorizo, race each other around home plate on the warning track.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • São Bento train station, often regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful transit hubs, features walls adorned with thousands of blue-and-white tiles depicting historical scenes.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In early January 2025, the Bureau of Land Management website explained the communities are in an area that climate change is rendering uninhabitable, mentioning climate eight times.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Miu Miu leaned into tradition, rendering argyle in a restrained palette that nodded to its country club roots.
    Minty Mellon, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After years of representing the best and brightest from the worlds of entertainment, sports, music and culture, the WME Group executive chairman and TKO Group CEO is becoming talent himself, launching a new video podcast called Rushmore.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
  • One lawyer representing patients who say they were harmed by the drug says his firm has gotten an influx of more than a thousand calls this week from potential new clients asking for information.
    Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From receiving a stark warning from a tech titan to earning a permanent thank-you from another, Risher’s unconventional career has been defined by taking on ambitious challenges.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This is particularly true now that Middleton is back to taking on more engagements after her cancer.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vought, who helped write the policy blueprint known as Project 2025, is playing a major role during the shutdown, including on decisions over whether there are mass layoffs of federal employees instead of furloughs and what funding is cut and what is allowed to flow.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • George Clooney is playing a movie star, and that was sort of built into the idea.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Role-playing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-playing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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