playtime
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playtimes
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Origin of playtime
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Painted characters and toyboxes made of wood are installed in scenes that replicate toy stores and home interiors, where figurines scattered on the floor suggest that we’ve just interrupted a child’s playtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Teachers use it as a behavioral bargaining chip, administrators weigh playtime against sagging test scores and researchers argue over how best to structure the minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Toy Story,” at the very least, saw this same everyday world through a new lens, asking children to wonder what it would be like if their toys had entirely separate lives outside of playtime.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
She'll wake me up in the morning to play before she goes to school and, as soon as I pick her up from school, it's playtime.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
And I could see, in playtime, that Karli was also enjoying the limelight just as much as I was.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
PLN’s programs span generations and include toddler parent-child playtimes, summer academic and cultural enrichment for children through ninth grade, parent leadership training and teen services that range from career exploration to game nights.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
He is wearing out his beloved Chihuahua, Gracie, with extended playtimes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
The BFI venue benefited from multiple playtimes each day, as opposed to just 38 showings over 28 days for Secret Cinema, although premium prices for the latter, reflecting the ambitious production values, boosted its takings.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2012
Beyond these playtimes she saw the "things I could do for Erik"—and she admitted that Erik did partly make up the image of her altogether perfect artist.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
What he set down upon the page was but a less free and rich version of the things that came from his living mouth in our heedless playtimes.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
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