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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
playact .
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Examples
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Perhaps you can't entirely relate to a family that not only re-reads but also quotes and playacts Homerian epics, but, really, we're not that strange.
The holiday weekend in... M-mv 2004
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Perhaps you can't entirely relate to a family that not only re-reads but also quotes and playacts Homerian epics, but, really, we're not that strange.
Archive 2004-11-01 M-mv 2004
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Like Prospero in a later romance (The Tempest), Simonides playacts the jealous father only to make the resolution of courtship all the more joyous.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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