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Recent Examples of role-play
For example, one box focuses on navigating and communicating consent and includes role-play scenarios where kids can practice saying yes and saying no in different situations.
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 24 Aug. 2025
Promova offers training in 12 languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean and American Sign Language, with role-play chatbots, a dedicated mode for people with dyslexia and other accessibility options for neurodivergent learners.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Over the past year, the district reversed course, rolling out Google’s Gemini chatbot to high-school classrooms where teachers are now using it to role-play historical figures and provide students with tutoring and instant feedback on assignments.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2025
One of the absolute best role-playing games of recent years, Metaphor: ReFantazio is the latest game from Atlus, creators of the legendary Persona series, and was helmed by director Katsura Hashino.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 24 Aug. 2025
Promova offers training in 12 languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean and American Sign Language, with role-play chatbots, a dedicated mode for people with dyslexia and other accessibility options for neurodivergent learners.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Over the past year, the district reversed course, rolling out Google’s Gemini chatbot to high-school classrooms where teachers are now using it to role-play historical figures and provide students with tutoring and instant feedback on assignments.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2025
One of the absolute best role-playing games of recent years, Metaphor: ReFantazio is the latest game from Atlus, creators of the legendary Persona series, and was helmed by director Katsura Hashino.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-play
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To bridge the gap, a handful of states have enacted orders expanding and protecting access, issuing blanket prescriptions, executive orders and insurance coverage requirements.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Treasury yields edged lower Monday, extending recent declines, after the Empire State Manufacturing Index came in far below what Wall Street economists had expected and traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve enacting an interest rate cut later this week.—
Pia Singh,Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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An animal physiotherapist and acupuncturist, Megan Taylor, posted on her Instagram @tayloredvetphysio the question of whether owners have noticed their senior dogs dreaming more intensely or acting out compared to younger canines.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Blanc specifically acts out moments from John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man to illustrate the impossibility of the crime.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Walking back to our site, Casper pantomimed catching a trout.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
7 Aug. 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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Nearly every garish flight of fancy that decorates the frame is a distraction while the majority of the film does little more than rotely dramatize Kafka’s biography.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book, the new series of Rogue Heroes comes at a critical stage of World War Two, continuing to dramatize the story of the world’s greatest Special Forces unit.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 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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Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2021
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The photo, informally titled The Scourged Back and depicting an escaped slave believed to have been named Peter Gordon, has been in wide circulation since the nineteeth century and is evocative of the horrors and injustice of slavery.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Sep. 2025
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Some of them are from other dimensions, some of them depict earlier, less experienced versions of a character.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The unit in the 1300 block of Quema Drive in Fremont was sold on July 25, 2025 for $2,588,000 which represents a price per square foot of $1,561.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Nicole Conlan, Chris Gethard, Liz Hynes, Sarah Montana, Sharyn Rothstein and Erica Saleh were elected to serve on the Council representing Film/TV/Streaming members.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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Purdy could return as early as this coming weekend when the 49ers take on the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Legislature needs to stop posturing and take on today’s major impediment to achievement, the teachers unions.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Role-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-play. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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