at play
Frequency: 6.57.1 per million words
In the state of playing.
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Examples (10)
- Children spend hours at play in the local park.
- The cat was at play with a ball of yarn.
- Even as adults, we sometimes need time at play.
- The children were noisy at play before dinner.
- After school, the kids are usually at play in the backyard.
- There are complex social dynamics at play in the community.
- She recognized the psychological factors at play in his behavior.
- Economic forces are always at play in the market.
- What underlying mechanisms are at play here?
- The interplay of several variables was at play in the experimental results.