role-played

variants also roleplayed
past tense of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-played
Verb
  • Kentucky's persistent felony offender (PFO) law, enacted in 1974 and expanded in 1976, allows for enhanced sentences for repeat felony offenders.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The World’s Highest Incarceration Rate Since the state of exception was enacted — and since extended more than 39 times — nearly 90,000 people have been detained.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Carey’s accolade also represented another full-circle moment for the chanteuse.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The trio represented half of Jamaica’s track and field medal haul from the Olympics last August.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors argued the brothers acted out of greed, resorting to murder to get their multimillion-dollar inheritances before being cut out of their parents’ will.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
  • At trial, prosecutors argued the brothers acted out of greed, eager to secure their parents' multimillion-dollar estate.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That's depicted in a disturbing, if somewhat inscrutable, scene.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All of this is rendered with stunning ease by his VFX team, in scenes that look like a news bulletin from the apocalypse.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Here, Ne Zha 2 succeeds wildly; locales such as a heavenly city made entirely of jade and a towering, bamboo-verdant waterfall are rendered with genuinely beautiful texture and detail.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Falcons played their opener two weeks ago and then had a bye.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The team behind the research noted that many of these genes are tied to developmental delay, which may have played a role in the slower pace of postnatal brain growth in humans compared to chimpanzees.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Role-played.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-played. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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