play act
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When I was little, I would play act in a swimming pool, for example, creating fake scenes from fake movies.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
We get to play act a war when people are dying.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2024
“We don’t play act — it’s not a game. It’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2017
They are central to the creative process of the theatre but never have to write a play, act a part or sweep a stage; they have the perfect job.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010
"I hate to deceive and play act and be underhanded."
From We Three by Henry Hutt
You know, we—alive today—could play-act some truth and reconciliation–style interaction.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
So you start to just play-act the situation that you're in and see if you can get out of it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
Several times, the kids play-act the old cartoonish “Tom Sawyer” game—in which the rascal tricks his buddies into doing his fence-painting chore—and the reference is apt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
They play-act traumatic scenarios, like getting a shot at the doctor’s office, in preparation for handling stressful situations in real life.
From The Verge ● Dec. 22, 2017
Any woman who can rob her own safe and give the alarm and play-act the grief of a whole wake afterwards certainly ought to get a great deal out of a confession scene.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
