as in highlights
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
that TV news program plays up sensational stories just to get higher ratings
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Recent Examples of plays up
Earlier this year, the company introduced Spanxsculpt ReDefine, a first-to-market denim collection with technology that plays up comfort and fit.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
At 6-2, 215, he is built well for the position and plays up to his size with his on-field physicality.
—Dane Brugler, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
So that mixed with the way Sean can draw these plays up?
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
If Love plays up to his full potential, Green Bay should be a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
At 6-2, 215, he is built well for the position and plays up to his size with his on-field physicality.
—Dane Brugler, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
So that mixed with the way Sean can draw these plays up?
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
If Love plays up to his full potential, Green Bay should be a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plays up
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Gatlin’s indictment highlights her approving more than $2 million in fraudulent Foundation payments to an Atlanta businessman, Yergan Jones, who owns an audiovisual company that provided no services to the nonprofit or Jackson Health System.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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The development also highlights the model’s growing popularity in the plug-in hybrid segment and its role in strengthening BYD’s position in China’s competitive new energy vehicle market.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Oct. 2025
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Reichardt emphasizes the extremity of the action with a strikingly novel form of cinematic narrative that, in a more ordinary drama, might feel like a facile evasion.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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Eno emphasizes that in fact there was no goal at all, which might be why the process generated such rich results.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
14 Oct. 2025
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The lineup of fly fishing films features breathtaking locations, great catches and the stories behind them.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
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The system also features NVLink-C2C interconnect technology, which offers five times the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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So the company stresses that in their process.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Voskuhl stresses that women need to be screened for contraindications such as breast cancer, clotting disorders or cardiovascular disease.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Plays up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plays%20up. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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