playing

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Tuchel's playing career was cut short by injury.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Robert "Madyar" Brovdi's underground command post features walls of blinking screens playing footage of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian troops, frontline maps, and scoreboards of destroyed targets.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Messrs. Cornett and Bradway, playing brothers, look enough alike to give one pause at least in the early part of the eight-episode season, and the flashes back and forth are frequent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

And I didn’t say, “OK, let’s see how you move, dance for 12 seconds,” I was just playing something and they started dancing and the camera happened to be running.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Candace is in the center of a group of women, playing host.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold