role-playing

variants also roleplaying
present participle of role-play

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-playing
Verb
  • Attaining Reimbursement Parity While states are making progress in enacting parity laws between telemedicine and in-hospital providers, the exact wording varies by state.
    Jason Povio, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The campaign included videos of the students re-enacting scenes from the film and posting them online with the hashtag #bacontopayson.
    Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • It is further brought to life on the Hulu adaptation of the same name, depicting a barren, stifling land of muted colors and brutal conditions.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Yet for all the drama in the newsroom, public grievances lodged by senior journalists, and relentless media coverage depicting the Post in crisis, there is little indication that Bezos is fazed.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This means that the color rendering under a light source should be as natural as possible compared to daylight.
    Desireé Oostland, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Some celebrities have been accused of operating pump-and-dump schemes with their coins, using their social media following to artificially inflate the value of these coins before cashing in their large holdings and rendering the coins worthless.
    Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The Advent wreath is a circular garland of evergreen branches representing eternity.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Billings, a metric representing cardholder spending, was up by about 6% from a year ago.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Then something strange happened — the Falcons started playing like one of the best defenses in the league.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Deion Sanders began his NFL career with the Falcons in 1989, also playing baseball for the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves well into the 1990s.
    Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Role-playing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-playing. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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