play around
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Throughout his career, Soderbergh has sought out new technology and filmmaking techniques to play around with, lending his work an exciting sandbox quality where anything goes.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
In a break in play around the half-hour mark, Mikey Moore, exciting, dangerous and 18 years old, juggled the ball around the halfway line.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
And she advises her to play around with online retirement-planning tools to stress-test scenarios such as a job loss, health events and living to 100.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
The Social Security Administration can give you estimates as to what benefits would be at different ages, and offers benefit calculators to let you play around with the numbers.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 13, 2025
Witches crawl into skins of dead animals, but they can do nothing but play around with objects and bodies.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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