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Recent Examples of role-play
Over the previous decade, Mats had spent about 20,000 hours playing World of Warcraft, an online role-playing fantasy game.
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Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Now, Titmouse is looking to bring its own spin on the classic role-playing game.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Critical Role next year is turning 10, and the Dungeons & Dragon role-playing troupe is staging a worldwide tour to mark the milestone.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
World of Warcraft, a groundbreaker in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre, was made into a movie.
—Chris Hewish, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Now, Titmouse is looking to bring its own spin on the classic role-playing game.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Critical Role next year is turning 10, and the Dungeons & Dragon role-playing troupe is staging a worldwide tour to mark the milestone.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
World of Warcraft, a groundbreaker in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre, was made into a movie.
—Chris Hewish, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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The quick take is that a Trump administration, working with a Republican Congress, should be able to enact policies that will foster a new burst of economic growth.Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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The act required that before any tax or fee is enacted, politicians must clearly outline how revenues would be spent.K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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The Police Department contends the gunman acted out of fear and self-defense, the statement says, which led him to pull the trigger.Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The Selzer poll has been viewed as evidence that pollsters calling the race a dead heat have been acting out of a desire to seek safety in numbers following the shock 2016 election result that failed to spot latent support for Trump.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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And so a lot of overqualified actors keep getting stuck pantomiming her presence, deliberately evoking Ripley while reminding us what the series lost when its star finally put the feverish space chases behind her.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
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After calmly letting Larry extrapolate, Jerry pantomimes a short beep.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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Otto is also suicidal — something A Man Called Otto never sufficiently dramatizes, cheapening the codger’s despair as the film prepares for the feel-good ending to come.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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The true-crime thriller, which Entertainment Weekly covered in our Fall Movie Preview, dramatizes the stranger-than-fiction inclusion of serial killer Rodney Alcala on The Dating Game, a popular game show hosted by Jim Lange that premiered in 1965.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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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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In the book, Dave depicted Toph (short for Christopher) as a guileless kid, the personification of hope.Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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This all changed a few years ago, when Seagate launched hard drives depicting Lucasfilm and Marvel characters and themes.PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Nov. 2024
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The Bee Cave City Council gave the city manager the reins in hiring counsel to represent the city in the upcoming industrial park case.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Indiana businesses pay $1.5 billion in business personal property taxes, which represents 15% of the total property tax revenue collected statewide.Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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But across three seasons, Mayor of Kingstown has been one of the most consistently compelling of Sheridan’s shows, with a fresh take on crime and punishment in a dying Rust Belt town.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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The San Francisco 49ers take on the Seattle Seahawks at 1:05 p.m. PDT on Sunday, Nov. 17 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.Pueng Vongs, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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