role-played

variants also roleplayed
past tense of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-played
Verb
  • 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
  • Newsom realized, though, that anything enacted by a California ballot initiative — such as the non-partisan election commission — can be undone by another initiative.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Anyway, the major finding of this digital twinning of the FOMC is that, under political pressure, the board members will, as represented by agents, disagree and fracture consensus.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His message represented an attempt to strike a message of reconciliation with rising tensions nationally.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors argued the brothers acted out of greed, resorting to murder to get their multimillion-dollar inheritances before being cut out of their parents’ will.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
  • At trial, prosecutors argued the brothers acted out of greed, eager to secure their parents' multimillion-dollar estate.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Trump, meanwhile, is depicted quite warmly.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The government said the bot — named Diella, which means sun in Albanian, and depicted as a woman in traditional Albanian dress — will help tackle corruption in public spending.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Medieval Europe, an era that gave us heraldry, court jesters, and troubadours, is rendered in dull, grayish brown hues.
    Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Not only does cloud storage occupy less space, but it cannot be physically destroyed and rendered useless like physical hard drives without a user explicitly deleting information.
    Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Pro Football Hall of Famer who played 17 years for the Miami Dolphins is widely considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, served as an analyst for The NFL Today on CBS for over a decade and most importantly was in a movie with Jim Carrey and an actual dolphin.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Aduba, 44, played famous detective Cordelia Cupp, who was determined to solve an unexpected murder at the White House, in The Residence.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Role-played.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-played. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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