role-playing

verb

variants also roleplaying
present participle of role-play
as in enacting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-playing
  1. enacting
  2. acting out
  3. depicting
  4. rendering
  5. representing
  6. taking on
  7. playing
Verb
  • The two fraternity brothers were sentenced to two years in prison, following Florida enacting a tougher anti-hazing law in 2005.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
  • But starting the debate over solvency by agreeing to borrow massive amounts of money before enacting structural reform is exactly the wrong idea.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of enacting
Verb
  • Abarca claimed that White was acting out an ongoing vendetta against him.
    — Ilana Arougheti July 21, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026
  • Kids ages 9 and up will spend hours acting out scenes as Cinderella and Gus with this Lego set.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Definition of acting out
Verb
  • The first shows the triumph of the oppressed working class, whereas the second offers the possibility of a peaceful society, depicting a group of women looking through a telescope.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 22 July 2026
  • In 2012, after China issued passports containing a map depicting Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, the Indian embassy in Beijing responded by stamping visas for Chinese nationals with a map showing the two regions as part of India.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Definition of depicting
Verb
  • Simultaneously rendering the past less remote while relishing its radical foreignness, Beard presses readers to grapple with alien ideas, reckon with gaps in their knowledge, and confront complexity.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • New state-level AI laws face significant enforcement challenges, rendering many ineffective.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • No lawyers were listed in court documents as representing him, and the public defender for the area did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 22 July 2026
  • Our expert panel consisted of roughly three dozen coaches, general managers, personnel directors, scouts and front office staffers across the country, representing every conference.
    — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of representing
Verb
  • By taking on the meme generator, Saflor may hit a wall if the court finds that his arguments apply to any meme generator and a finding in his favor could risk undercutting the entire meme ecosystem, Goldman said.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
  • Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively halted, and significantly lower through the Bab-al-Mandeb strait – with oil tankers unwilling to risk taking on fire from the Iranians and Houthis.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Definition of taking on
Verb
  • Even with their side trip to Utah, Memphis had four of the top seven players in minutes in Vegas, helped by playing a sixth game in the championship.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Only the two teams that make the championship game playing a sixth game, but the Heat is likely out of the mix for the championship game with two losses in Las Vegas.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
Definition of playing
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