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Throughout his career, Soderbergh has sought out new technology and filmmaking techniques to play around with, lending his work an exciting sandbox quality where anything goes.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

As long as you have enough money to live on with your other sources of income, plus a 12-month emergency fund, you have enough time to play around with.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

In a break in play around the half-hour mark, Mikey Moore, exciting, dangerous and 18 years old, juggled the ball around the halfway line.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

But none of that stops Claude Code from being fun to play around with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

“If Billy had a home like Manderley he would not want to play around in Palm Beach,” she said.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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