playful
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Rachel Bonnetta opened the show with a mix of playful confidence and high-energy hilarity, perfectly warming up the crowd before introducing the main attraction to fans.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Evoking classics of the ‘60s and ’70s Latin American boom, the novel is sensual and darkly comic, suffused with the sense that, as Arias writes, “fate was a cruel, playful thing.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Tributes poured in from players he had coached, rivals his teams had faced along the way and fans who were charmed by his playful, down-to-earth persona.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
OpenAI said that for the bot’s “nerdy” personality, which was designed to dial up the playful language, mentions of goblins in its GPT-5.4 model increased 3,881% from a previous version.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
She smiled, and I swear it wasn’t cute, it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t playful, it wasn’t anything other than brave, and that smile bobbed like a buoy in the pit of me.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Vocabulary lists containing playful
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ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 6
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Tone and Point of View, List 2
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