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Recent Examples of role-play
Side Quest often hosts role-playing game events and book clubs.
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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
As in even the most sophisticated role-playing games, the best part is the journey, not so much the destination.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025
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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
As in even the most sophisticated role-playing games, the best part is the journey, not so much the destination.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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The Ivanhoe grant marked only the latest fallout in the Kansas City metro from the wave of spending cuts and reductions enacted since President Donald Trump took office.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Feb. 2025
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Some states are already making moves President Biden’s administration largely blocked states from enacting work rules of their own and required 10 states to remove the requirement for Medicaid coverage.—
Amanda Seitz,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Gracie using Benjamin Bratt to act out self-defense moves on national TV?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2025
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Vanessa Saba Listen to this article · 5:23 min Learn more By Christina Caron Feb. 20, 2025 When Jennifer S. Wortham was a teenager, her younger brother Patrick started acting out and getting in trouble at school.—
Christina Caron,
New York Times,
20 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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In our age of self-kneecapping carefulness, Wohl both takes risks and dramatizes the moral dilemma of taking them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Few Indian movies have so gently zeroed in on the way mental health conditions are used as a pretext to strip people of their humanity, even though the camera rarely probes Sundar enough to rebuild his personhood from the inside-out, or dramatize whatever haunts his waking moments.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
16 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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His film, a sweeping three-and-a-half-hour-long epic that depicts fictional architect László Tóth, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor starting over in the United States, has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Then again, a closer confluence between what’s depicted, and the revelation of its meaning, would’ve certainly yielded stronger and more visceral drama.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Who Was Sesame Street’s First Black Muppet? Since the beginning, the children's show has tried to represent the diversity of the nation.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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The judge’s orders represented a clean sweep for the prosecution over the defense’s effort to exclude a variety of evidence from Kohberger’s capital murder trial.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2025
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Then the whole thing took on even more urgency when Cale Makar missed a practice due to illness.—
Sean McIndoe,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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In a way, this show was always going to be relevant to this community, but it’s definitely taken on new resonance now.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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