downplay
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How about cutting advertising short to do your interviews or picking more appropriate nonplay action segments?
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022
At one point The New York Times described it as “the nonplay that is a pastiche of lines from Shakespeare, Aeschylus, 1930s movies, grand opera, TV commercials and comic books, in no apparent order.”
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016
At the owners meeting in March, Belichick said that kickers were so good now that “we’ve made it a nonplay, and I don’t think nonplays are good for the game.”
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2014
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