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With Casas sidelined, the question of what the Red Sox should do has become a parlor game in the Back Bay.
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Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
For a few days this past spring, The Athletic amused itself with a parlor game among Dodgers veterans.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
The default parlor game at Coachella is to speculate about who might be a viable headliner in the future; any of these three women could have held down her own day.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2025
Naomie Harris and Regé-Jean Page fill out the cast as more experienced agents growing tired of George’s parlor games, while Pierce Brosnan lurks in the background as a disapproving boss.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
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Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
For a few days this past spring, The Athletic amused itself with a parlor game among Dodgers veterans.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
The default parlor game at Coachella is to speculate about who might be a viable headliner in the future; any of these three women could have held down her own day.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2025
Naomie Harris and Regé-Jean Page fill out the cast as more experienced agents growing tired of George’s parlor games, while Pierce Brosnan lurks in the background as a disapproving boss.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Parlor game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlor%20game. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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