play along
phrasal verb
played along; playing along; plays along
: to agree to do or accept what other people want
They wanted me to cooperate with them, but I refused to play along.
—often + withI refused to play along with their plan.
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Franco is the heir apparent to the Michael Haneke world of unsettled, austere psychological pain against geopolitical backdrops onscreen, and Chastain is more game than ever to play along with his hopeless world.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
When one background player was mistaken for an Olympics employee by a group of attendees, the extra played along, improving information on the fly to a flock of tourists none the wiser.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
But Rock imbued his role with such uninhibited certainty about his importance to The Simpsons’ lore that everyone started playing along.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
By trapping itself within the Paris framework, the U.S. was playing along with Chinese ambitions, positioning itself to squander America’s natural energy advantage, and inflicting terrible harm on its auto sector.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
When one background player was mistaken for an Olympics employee by a group of attendees, the extra played along, improving information on the fly to a flock of tourists none the wiser.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
But Rock imbued his role with such uninhibited certainty about his importance to The Simpsons’ lore that everyone started playing along.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
By trapping itself within the Paris framework, the U.S. was playing along with Chinese ambitions, positioning itself to squander America’s natural energy advantage, and inflicting terrible harm on its auto sector.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Play along.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/play%20along. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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