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Investors need to be able to distinguish “the play-acting from the real stuff.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

Marie’s number “Children and Art,” in which she tries to pass down what’s she’s gleaned from her long life, leaves an impression of play-acting.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

All the guns and maps talk was easy for intelligence officials to write off as mere fantasy play-acting, instead of a serious plan.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2021

More importantly, the long awful course of history reminds us how slippery the slope is from play-acting as a strike force to actually behaving as a strike force.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2021

She may have been play-acting the first time, I think, but this time she really did risk her life to save Captain Smith.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone



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