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also roleplays
as in pantomimes
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In a time where AI country singers are making the charts and vocal deepfakes run rampant, the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act enacts protections for artists against unauthorized uses of their voice and likeness in deepfakes and digital replicas.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
12 Dec. 2025 -
Whatever violence the major enacts against these POWs will stain his soul, but refusing to follow his own orders will doom him.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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In order to break free of those constraints, Hedda acts out and becomes an architect of destruction.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
23 Oct. 2025
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At these screenings, the film is shown on the big screen while a cast silently acts out the entire film in front of the audience.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Role-plays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-plays. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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