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*in play

1. Lit. [of a ball, in a game] under the effect of the rules of the game. (*Typically: be ~; get back ~; put something back ~.) The ball is in play again and the activity is furious. The ball is not in play yet.

2. Fig. [of a company or its stock] in the process of being bought out by another company. (*Typically: be ~; put something ~.) The company I bought stock in is now in play. This stock is in play.

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"None but fools trust to luck in play," Dolokhov had then said. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Nor can any son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog. Fables by Aesop View in context			in on the ground floor in one breath in one ear and out the other in one fell swoop in one piece in one stroke in opinion in opposition in orbit in order in order to do in other words in over head in own right in own way in park in part in passing in pencil in perpetuity in person in perspective in place in place of in plain language in play in pocket in point of fact in possession in power in practice in prayers in press in prime in principle in print in private in progress in proportion in public in pursuit of in quest of in question in rags in rare form in reality in receipt of in recent memory in reduced circumstances in reference to in rehearsal			in perspective in petto in phase in phase in phase in phase in phase In Piggy's Humble Opinion in pinched circumstances In Plaats Van in place in place in place in place in place In Place Forces in place of in place of in place of in place of in place of in place of a parent In Place Select in plain English in plain language in plain sight in plain view In Plane Switching In Plant Testing In Plant Vacation in play in pocket in pocket in pocket in pocket in pocket in point in point in point in point in point in point of in point of in point of in point of in point of in point of fact in point of fact in point of fact in point of fact in point of fact in poor taste In Por Ylem In Position In Position In Position EP in posse in posse in possession in potestate parentis in power

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