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playing

adjective as in performing

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noun as in dalliance

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It wasn’t just that Nessarose was played by a real person in a wheelchair, it was the additional fact that she was a Black wheelchair-using actress playing the character.

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Disabled women in film can fall into the “pretty disabilities” trope – when a beautiful actress playing disabled appears able-bodied enough to still be perceived as desirable.

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Democrats may have poor communication skills, but they’re even worse at playing political chess.

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They’re so bad at it that a man convicted of multiple felonies is beating them, by playing checkers.

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Lesher of Hueneme was surprised earlier this week when a band started playing at lunch time in his honor on campus.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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