played-out
Example Sentences
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A similar debate around honoring Bardot played out among French politicians in the wake of her passing.
From Salon
The game was played out amid a boisterous atmosphere in a stadium packed with Algerian fans in a crowd of 18,522.
From Barron's
Ultimately, though, the match was played out as an off-season exhibition.
From BBC
Typically, that meant lifting early injunctions that federal district judges had issued to keep the policies on hold while the lawsuits played out.
Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.
From Los Angeles Times
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