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Recent Examples of role-play
It's based on the popular tabletop role-playing game, and earned acclaim for its accuracy, humor, and charm.
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Side Quest often hosts role-playing game events and book clubs.
—Steph Solis, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
Participants board a fake train going to a fictional paradise on the island of Hermia to win a cash prize in a role-playing game.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
With costs of around $6,000 per two-night stay, the LARP (live-action role-playing) journey welcomed guests aboard the fictional Halcyon, a luxury starcruiser.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Side Quest often hosts role-playing game events and book clubs.
—Steph Solis, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
Participants board a fake train going to a fictional paradise on the island of Hermia to win a cash prize in a role-playing game.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
With costs of around $6,000 per two-night stay, the LARP (live-action role-playing) journey welcomed guests aboard the fictional Halcyon, a luxury starcruiser.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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Tariffs on Canada and Mexico were delayed for a month, but Trump did enact a new 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese products.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2025
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Drouin fears what will happen to the lobster industry if the trade dispute persists and Canada enacts a retaliatory tariff on lobsters.—
Dee-Ann Durbin and Sally Ho,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition (March 25) takes a wary view of its own contents, which span half a millennium, arguing that the West acted out its daydreams of a docile Orient one cup-and-saucer at a time.—
Shauna Lyon,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Department of Government Efficiency, which Musk does not officially lead but has acted out his objectives, has been orchestrating a campaign to drastically cut the federal workforce and budget.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 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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Directed and co-written by Alex Parkinson, Last Breath dramatizes the true story of a saturation-diving accident that took place off the coast of Scotland in 2012, and is based on Parkinson and Richard da Costa's 2019 documentary of the same name.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
1 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the case of Mahler-Werfel dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 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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Khonsu was their son, and often depicted as a mummified man.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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Since Zendaya’s character in the trailer is depicted with brown eyes, naturally, Shrek advocates and scholars have come to the conclusion that Zendaya’s Shrek character must be trans.—
James Factora,
Them,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Texas Cattle Feeders Association represents the cattle-feeding industry in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.—
Peter Burke,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Oklahoma represents the sad conclusion of the Trail of Tears, and Tulsa serves as the meeting point for tribal nations—the Osage, Muscogee, and Cherokee.—
Nicholas Lalla,
WIRED,
4 Mar. 2025
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As part of the deal, the Commanders are taking on the remainder of Samuel's contract, and paying his full $17.55 million salary for the 2025 season.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Conversation In the 1974 film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Hackman took on the role of Harry Caul, an audio surveillance expert in San Francisco who stumbles upon a murder plot.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
Fox News,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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