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• But that does not mean there was not a quid pro quo at play, too.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• And so all of those things were at play in creating the band.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
• There are all these things at play that shape what music is.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• There may be, in fact, multiple pieces of new physics at play.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
• And there are no federal, state or court mandates at play, so cut that list of 16 down to 11.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Then came a 1973 incident in Poland, and that’s the one that really showed off the fungus at play.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• There are other legal issues and questions at play in the case.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2024
• Of course, there are other factors at play, such as provenance.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
• There’s a third matter at play here, too, in who gets to decide what is helpful to someone else.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
• With all of these factors at play, 42 million Americans are at odds on how to live a healthy life.
  — Ashley Tyrner, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• But another factor was at play: his strong support for the brand-new apartheid regime.
  — Joshua Benton, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2023
• And of course there’s a big strike right now, and these issues of streaming and compensation are very much at play.
  — Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 May 2023
• A couple of factors are at play in the rising rates revealed in the MBA's report Thursday.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The depth-sensing function of the cameras is the crucial element at play.
  — Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
• At the start of 1987, children at play found his corpse in a vacant lot, his face disfigured by splashes of acid.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• His father blames a strange family in the neighboring house, but of course far more is at play.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
• Here’s a closer look at the school board’s decision and what’s at play moving forward.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• Here’s a closer look at the school board’s decision and what’s at play moving forward.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• Cowboy fans can’t even make out their heroes at play because of the glare out at JerryWorld.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• That isn’t to say there aren’t other factors at play; Austin, for instance, has its own set of weaknesses.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• Alia Wong: The issues at play in the neighborhood influence what happens in the classroom, too.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• One important factor at play in the Bamako-area trial: It was not carried out in a war zone.
  — Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Image: Withings Of course, there are some other factors at play, too.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 8 Jan. 2024
• The main issue at play went much further than simply who could or could not adopt an Indigenous child.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• But the questions at play are neither vast nor at this point entirely unproven.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• There’s also something far more ancient, and Freudian, at play: No young person wants to look like their dad.
  — John Ortved, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• This imbalance of too many omega-6 fatty acids and too few omega-3 fatty acids is the bigger problem at play here.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• Heimlich, the airline economist, points to a few other factors that could be at play.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• The main philosophies at play in backpacking can be boiled down to minimalism: in gear and in action.
  — Diana Helmuth, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
• Sadly, because this is sports in 2023, there are, of course, other narratives at play.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024