played-out
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"I don't have any real sense of what this album's supposed to be," said RM as recording sessions played out, arguing that "there's a level of authenticity we need to have here".
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026
But by the time the bicentennial rolled around, my life had played out against the backdrop of civil unrest and the Vietnam War, both spilling from our black-and-white television almost nightly.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
"It was a process that needed to be played out. The process has been played out," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
As the scramble has played out, rumors and fearmongering have ricocheted across Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
Maybe if we’d tackled it at the start, things would have played out differently, who knows?
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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