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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of playact.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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