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play with

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play with something
to use something in a way that is not serious or careful. She's playing with a dangerous drug. The budget is just playing with numbers and doesn't make sense.
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Let us make an image out of snow,--an image of a little girl,--and it shall be our sister, and shall run about and play with us all winter long.
The Snow Image by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It was the only tune she knew, but that she could play with one finger.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
They also know how to play with false dice; and so eagerly did I find them playing, that they perspired thereby.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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