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playact

[pley-akt] / ˈpleɪˌækt /














VERB
tread the boards
Synonyms


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As a youngster, Brian liked to playact with the toys he made.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020

Or playact as a deranged old-timey vendor in the stands?

From Slate • May 22, 2020

Do today’s guests want a 19th-century stage set on which to playact high society?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

Giving them authority over arbitrarily defined transgressors can prompt brutality, as the Stanford Prison Experiment—in which students were assigned to playact the roles of either guards or prisoners—showed in the 1970s.

From Time • Jan. 13, 2015

The two of them playact with each other, pretending to be cordial, but only so it will make the final betrayal even sweeter.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman