play games
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Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Alas, Netflix Playground is an app for children 8 and younger, where kids can play games featuring characters from Sesame Street and Peppa Pig.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
He references Xbox's server outage in late July, in which users couldn't play games even if they owned the discs and how "nobody liked that".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“This transition will enable us to align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
When my mom didn’t have to work, we would log in at the same time and play games or go on interactive storybook adventures together.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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