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Recent Examples of role-playStaffers and volunteers role-play as cowboys and camp cooks.—Jim Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025 There are poems, college essays, and excerpts from role-play sessions with AI chatbots.—Claire Bryan and Sharon Lurye, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025 That’s apt, since the drama tells the story of young corporate heir, Ban Ju-yeon, who assumes the identity of Black Dragon in a role-playing game.—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Torres claimed at the time that the messages were part of a fantasy role-play that was then exploited by the Chicago man.—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for role-play
Republicans are hoping to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, which caps how much money the Treasury Department can owe to pay the country’s bills, by up to $5 trillion this year as part of a larger package to extend expiring tax cuts enacted through Trump’s signature 2017 tax law.
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Aris Folley,
The Hill,
18 Apr. 2025
The Florida Sheriff's Association announced in February that all county jails had signed agreements in compliance with a state law enacted in 2022.
Unlike Molly, who's politely reticent and reluctant to speak up for herself, Nikki can't resist expressing her anger and sorrow—or, more precisely, dramatizing them for whatever audience of oncologists happens to be in range.
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Dory Jackson,
People.com,
4 Apr. 2025
The network’s right to turn George and Tammy’s story into a TV show came from the First Amendment and from buying the rights to dramatize Georgette’s book.
And, for families looking for strong tween and teenage girl protagonists depicted on screen, Rule Breakers is ideal.
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Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
18 Apr. 2025
There’s also the personal draw: Not everyone has experienced a haunting, but complicated family dynamics are depicted so often in media that the setting feels both funny and heart racing.
Even so, those figures represent a sharp recovery from early January, when statewide snowpack measured just 2.7 inches — only 10% of the April 1 average and 28% of normal for that date.
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Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
This trip back to Chicago was supposed to represent something new.
Jordan pulls double duty as gangster twins taking on vampires in 1930s Mississippi in director Ryan Coogler's musical horror mashup.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
Oz takes on the role as Congress actively debates potential cuts to Medicaid, which provides essential support to millions of low-income and disabled Americans.
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