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Recent Examples of role-play
With 129 pieces, colorful mini-figures, and fun play features, this Lego Friends set encourages imaginative role-play and the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
Buy one get one 50% off Disney princess dress up/role-play items.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Training for chaplains includes role-playing exercises on scenarios such as delivering death notifications, counseling colleagues with addiction issues, and assisting those grappling with survivor's guilt.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Disco Elysium is a role-playing game set in the fictional Revachol—an impoverished seaside town that was decimated by a political revolution that occurred decades earlier.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
Buy one get one 50% off Disney princess dress up/role-play items.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Training for chaplains includes role-playing exercises on scenarios such as delivering death notifications, counseling colleagues with addiction issues, and assisting those grappling with survivor's guilt.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Disco Elysium is a role-playing game set in the fictional Revachol—an impoverished seaside town that was decimated by a political revolution that occurred decades earlier.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Though states and municipalities are generally preempted from enacting their own limits, Congress allowed the EPA to waive the preemption rule to allow California to set certain regulations that are stricter than federal standards.Andrew Chung, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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House Republicans will have a 217-215, zero-seat margin at the beginning of the next Congress, which could cause chaos in enacting President-elect Trump’s agenda.Cate Martel, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
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Though no illnesses have been reported so far, the recalling company has acted out of an abundance of caution.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Tom Reed, who runs the Milwaukee branch of the State Public Defender's Office, interacts with many people facing criminal charges after acting out during a mental health crisis.Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 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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The film dramatizes the Štrpci massacre of 1993, when 24 Bosniak Muslims were pulled off a train by a Serbian paramilitary group and only one man, the Croatian Tomo Buzov, stood up against the attackers.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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Bob Dylan is weighing in publicly for the first time on an upcoming biopic set to dramatize his early career.Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 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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The movie depicts the life of Lombardy peasant families working on farms for the same landlord during the late 19th century, casting actual farmers and locals instead of professional actors.Sandra Salibian, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Father Time is often depicted holding his scythe, signifying that every moment is fleeting.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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In 2022, a lawyer representing Christe Chen's parents said their daughter's body was so badly damaged that she couldn't be embalmed for return to the U.S. and her remains were cremated.CBS News, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2024
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And the superlatives are running dry for Milenkovic, who represents the best £11million ($13.9m) Forest have spent in a long time.Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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District chief Pedro Martinez has maintained a firm grip on his job despite the mayor and the teachers’ union’s efforts to oust him, in part for his refusal to take on a hefty, high-interest loan to help fund their new CTU contract and a pension payment to the city.Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2024
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The South Bay Lakers took on the Valley Suns on Thursday night and came away with the loss.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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