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Recent Examples of role-play
LLMs can role-play in remarkably human-like fashion: Research by Stanford and Google published earlier this year suggests that LLMs are able to simulate individual personalities closely enough to respond to certain types of surveys with 85% accuracy as the individuals themselves.
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François Candelon, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Gaming becomes a player Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
Special Screenings section
A world-famous role-playing game developed by Prague’s Warhorse Studios makes its cinematic debut as a film specially created for the Karlovy Vary festival.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
Lek likens the experience to entering the physical version of a free-roaming role-playing game.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Titmouse is launching a Dungeons & Dragons-esque table-top drinking and role-playing game, in addition to a merch and collectibles delivery box service called Churp, lines of business that echo the company’s origins as a side project selling T-shirts.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
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François Candelon, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Gaming becomes a player Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
Special Screenings section
A world-famous role-playing game developed by Prague’s Warhorse Studios makes its cinematic debut as a film specially created for the Karlovy Vary festival.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
Lek likens the experience to entering the physical version of a free-roaming role-playing game.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Titmouse is launching a Dungeons & Dragons-esque table-top drinking and role-playing game, in addition to a merch and collectibles delivery box service called Churp, lines of business that echo the company’s origins as a side project selling T-shirts.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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Who won Power of Veto on ‘Big Brother’? Keanu enacted his power, which allowed a former houseguest to come in and play in the Power of Veto competition for him.—
David Wysong,
The Enquirer,
24 July 2025
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Since Ecuador recognized the rights of Pachamama, the Quechua name for Mother Earth, in its Constitution in 2008, more than 500 laws on the rights of nature have been enacted around the world.—
Dana Zartner,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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Restless legs syndrome, a condition characterized by an urge to move the legs, is common in Parkinson's disease, as is REM sleep disorder, a condition in which people act out their dreams while sleeping.—
Heidi Moawad,
Verywell Health,
28 July 2025
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Emerging research suggests that acting out dreams might also predict Parkinson’s disease.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
22 July 2025
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And Brunson kept up the energy through the show that followed, delivering some devastatingly personal compliment sandwiches during a leadership summit and frantically pantomiming elaborate insults while parked on a ferry.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
4 May 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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Drawing from the real-life Lisbon Maru incident of October 1942, the film dramatizes events when an American submarine accidentally torpedoed a Japanese vessel transporting approximately 1,800 British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 July 2025
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The film dramatizes this downward spiral through the experience of a man consumed by anxiety about how his community is shifting around him.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
23 July 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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The 2005 adaptation of the beloved Marvel comics depicted the origin story of the foursome, played by Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.—
Brendan Le,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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The episode knocks Trump multiple times by depicting him with comedically small genitals, which frustrates Satan and enrages Trump when a portrait artist paints him with small genitals.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Aurora's newest ship, the Douglas Mawson, also represents a leap forward.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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With most of the state's congressional districts represented by Republicans, that proposal could have resulted in a partisan elections oversight board.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
26 July 2025
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And so taken on its own terms – a pop concert initiation for young fans – Sunday’s show was a perfectly fine arena spectacle.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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A lot of the folk musicians featured in the doc take on existing policies in Ireland with a call for more liberal attitudes.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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