playacting
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Can the two tell the difference between playacting and following their hearts?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Between 2018 and 2021, McIndoe, now 25, went from state to state, playacting the role of radicalized cult leader pushing an absurd conspiracy theory—that, as he put it, “birds aren’t real.”
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2024
Online critics have slammed the job switchers as naïve, suggesting that they are playacting at poverty or taking blue-collar jobs from less educated people who need them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
And Collette’s playacting of such a role becomes a source of tension throughout the book.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Rowan had heard Jiller say that when they all were children, she had decided that Allun's joking and playacting formed an armor stronger than Val's and Ellis's iron muscles or Bronden's bad temper.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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