play out
Example Sentences
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Powell made clear by releasing the video statement that he wasn’t going to let this play out in the shadows.
They played out a tight affair in Florida, with Buffalo leading 10-7 at half-time, then 13-10 heading into the fourth quarter, when the lead changed hands four times in a nail-biting finale.
From BBC
To understand how this played out, the research team assembled an extensive fossil database spanning two centuries of late Ordovician and early Silurian paleontology.
From Science Daily
The new deal is expected to bring two of the country’s most influential companies closer together at a time when payments are increasingly playing out on people’s phones, watches and other gadgets.
That has so far played out — with the stock falling 13% on its first day of trading, 10% on day two and about 6.5% in midday trading on its third day.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
