player
noun
a person or thing that plays.
nonplayer
-
a word derived from
player.
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 unlawfully repurposed and modified—colloquially, hacked—OPM using this unprecedented access to treat government workers as nonplayer characters, answerable to him above their agencies.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2025
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
This is an apocalypse story in which you will be allowed to feel and even laugh, a game adaptation able to grant dimensionality to its nonplayer characters.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Ryan Reynolds is a nonplayer character who realizes he lives inside a videogame in the convoluted corporate comedy “Free Guy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
