playact
Example Sentences
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As a youngster, Brian liked to playact with the toys he made.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
His period visions are rife with knowing winks to the camera; eras turn into aesthetics, to be put on and discarded; and most crucially, adults act like children, as much as children playact as adults.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2019
Do today’s guests want a 19th-century stage set on which to playact high society?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016
Giving them authority over arbitrarily defined transgressors can prompt brutality, as the Stanford Prison Experiment—in which students were assigned to playact the roles of either guards or prisoners—showed in the 1970s.
From Time • Jan. 13, 2015
The obvious response is that they never let us do anything but playact with our guns.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
