play (on or upon)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for play (on or upon)
Verb
  • Over the past few months, Mace has filed a bill seeking to ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The isolation tank, communicating with other species, all of these things had very early roots in (the question) how can this be exploited?
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • This is more dangerous than social media’s AI custom-delivering generally available videos to teens that exploit their anxieties to keep them online.
    Robert Fellmeth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This perk can be abused in all horse races – like the wager in Kingdom Come 2's Miri Fajta quest – to win easily.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • President Andrew Jackson famously abused this authority, and this led to the creation of the Civil Service Act.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Ann Scott Tyson/The Christian Science Monitor Meanwhile, Mr. Inagaki, the rickshaw puller, is leveraging his Mandarin and making connections on Chinese apps.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The filing outlines the company's strategy to leverage its management team's experience to identify and acquire a target business that can benefit from being publicly traded.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The 18-episode season made Laura’s death feel almost world-historic, peeling back the layers to reveal a grand, mythological evil manipulating events into shape.
    K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The content is manipulated to appeal to potential lone-wolf recruits in the U.S. to start retribution against Israel's supporters in the U.S., particularly the Jewish community.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Play (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/play%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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