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played-out

adjective as in dissipated

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The evolution played out with the Godchauxs on albums like the multiplatinum live LP “Europe ’72,” and studio albums “Wake of the Flood” and “From the Mars Hotel.”

He said: "It introduced her unique comic sensibility, with a strong flavour of farce, matched with a campaigning sense of social justice, which played out magnificently over subsequent novels and in her public life."

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But the strike at the Pittsburgh newsroom has played out in a way that’s reminiscent of an earlier age in U.S. labor history, when unions dominated and strikes could turn into bloody conflicts.

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But the strike at the Pittsburgh newsroom has played out in a way reminiscent of an earlier age in labor history in the U.S., when unions dominated and strikes could turn into bloody conflicts.

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As the case has played out over the past five years, it's involved a bitter war of words, a dramatic trial and some of the biggest names in rap.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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