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problem play

NOUN
theater of the absurd
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“We should be in unison about the primary, and we should let this other problem play itself out.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 30, 2023

We have seen this problem play out in the geopolitical context within the past few weeks.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2022

Staging this Shakespearean problem play is tantamount to a provocation these days.

From Washington Post Mar. 6, 2022

Instead, they let the problem play out to see what they could learn about it before fixing it.

From The Verge Apr. 6, 2020

He had been writing ten years when he essayed his first serious presentation of what we might to-day call a problem play on an English subject in “A Blot in the ’Scutcheon.”

From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke




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