Example Sentences

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Neighboring countries now treated as nonplayer characters can, in fact, act in countless ways to disarm this threat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He danced like a nonplayer character, or NPC, in a computer game for 39 minutes at a town hall meeting the other night after taking a handful of questions.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

AI-generated voices will take over voicing nonplayer characters if unregulated, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

But video game developers, already relying on artificial intelligence so that nonplayer characters can make humanlike decisions, believe that harnessing generative A.I. can speed up the creative process in a labor-intensive industry plagued by delays.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

This desire for emergence has been at the heart of game designers’ search for ways to make nonplayer characters in story-based video games seem less flat, repetitive, and two-dimensional—in other words, more alive.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2019