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

“There are physical lines of dialogue where nonplayer characters talk back to Miles. That’s not new for video games, but we tried to make it more pointed. There’s a lot of Spanish,” says Narcisse.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2020

The game’s only sustained social interactions are awkward, corporate-sponsored cut scenes with nonplayer characters.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2020