starring (in)

verb

present participle of star (in)
as in posing (as)

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  1. acting out
  2. taking on
  3. interpreting
Verb
  • The bonus episodes also include stop-motion animation toy versions of the movie’s characters acting out some of the original film’s biggest moments and interactive games focused on the character’s backstage lives.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Her sketches got weirder as a way of acting out against her audience.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of acting out
Verb
  • The booster also supported six Starlink flights before taking on USSF-432.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • In the case of Yemen, the ground fighters inside the country who are taking on the Houthis are deeply divided and fought each other as recently as January.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of taking on
Verb
  • One way of interpreting the findings was that amyloid had been assigned too large a role in Alzheimer’s.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • However, interpreting their output remains difficult because the cameras generate millions of individual signals rather than recognizable images.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of interpreting
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