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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
One of the underlying actuarial assumptions of Social Security when it was enacted, apparently, was that the government wouldn’t be paying a whole lot of money to a whole lot of retirees.
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Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Illinois, California and Minnesota have enacted laws protecting the earnings of young creators, and Minnesota's law includes a similar provision to Utah's that allows content featuring minors to be taken down.
Durant can, at times, string together 8-10 minute long takes, acting out everything in a particular scene, so precision is key.
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Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
However, Trump is far from the only one pushing this idea: several states are considering their own versions, including Oklahoma, which passed a strategic Bitcoin reserve act out of committee last week.
This clever, focus-shifting structure allows showrunners Robbins and Sarah Sutherland to dramatize the most lurid, horror-movie aspects of the story without appearing to endorse one version over another.
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Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
19 Mar. 2025
No playwright of the modern era has more compassionately — or accurately — dramatized the human consciousness of time, loss and the gap between hope and reality.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
On pages four and five of the CARICOM passport, Castillo depicts a lone man braving Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria, which struck in 2017.
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R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Originally attributed to Pieter Pourbus, a Flemish Renaissance artist who worked in Bruges during the 16th century, the painting depicts an austere man and his young daughter in matching ruffs.
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Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Be fully engaged, but don’t take on the client's emotional weight.
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Tim Maurer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
After 12 years coaching boys’ basketball and one season as an assistant girls’ coach, Aundre Cummings took on the challenge as the head coach of a talented but young Ontario Christian girls’ basketball team this season.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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