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Recent Examples of role-play
Staffers and volunteers role-play as cowboys and camp cooks.
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Jim Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
There are poems, college essays, and excerpts from role-play sessions with AI chatbots.
—Claire Bryan and Sharon Lurye, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s apt, since the drama tells the story of young corporate heir, Ban Ju-yeon, who assumes the identity of Black Dragon in a role-playing game.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Torres claimed at the time that the messages were part of a fantasy role-play that was then exploited by the Chicago man.
—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
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Jim Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
There are poems, college essays, and excerpts from role-play sessions with AI chatbots.
—Claire Bryan and Sharon Lurye, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s apt, since the drama tells the story of young corporate heir, Ban Ju-yeon, who assumes the identity of Black Dragon in a role-playing game.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Torres claimed at the time that the messages were part of a fantasy role-play that was then exploited by the Chicago man.
—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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One of the underlying actuarial assumptions of Social Security when it was enacted, apparently, was that the government wouldn’t be paying a whole lot of money to a whole lot of retirees.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Illinois, California and Minnesota have enacted laws protecting the earnings of young creators, and Minnesota's law includes a similar provision to Utah's that allows content featuring minors to be taken down.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Travelers who act out drunk in public risk a fine up to €4,000 (around $4,300.64), the U.K. website states.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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The show opens with the filming of a Continental movie, with Paul Dano acting out a deadly fight scene while director Peter Berg looks on.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2025
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As Huff ran down the line, Bochy pumped his arms while pantomiming the Herman Munster trot.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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Yet not a sound emerges from the baying mob, which has been instructed to pantomime their appreciation noiselessly.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The show dramatizes a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado from 2008 to 2011, focusing on a survivor named Marie (Kaitlyn Dever) and the two detectives trying to solve the case, played brilliantly by Toni Collette and Merritt Wever.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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Today, Margaret would be playacting her own massacre in active shooter drills at school.—
Petula Dvorak,
Washington Post,
1 May 2023
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Trump’s modus, as ever, was to playact; his game has always been improv.—
Joe Klein,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2023
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On pages four and five of the CARICOM passport, Castillo depicts a lone man braving Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria, which struck in 2017.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Originally attributed to Pieter Pourbus, a Flemish Renaissance artist who worked in Bruges during the 16th century, the painting depicts an austere man and his young daughter in matching ruffs.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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For Sriram, this new venture represents another avenue for creative exploration rather than a pivot away from his other work.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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In Figure 2, red dots represent safety or operational events.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Be fully engaged, but don’t take on the client's emotional weight.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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After 12 years coaching boys’ basketball and one season as an assistant girls’ coach, Aundre Cummings took on the challenge as the head coach of a talented but young Ontario Christian girls’ basketball team this season.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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