play along
Britishverb
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to cooperate (with), esp as a temporary measure
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(tr) to manipulate as if in a game, esp for one's own advantage
he played the widow along until she gave him her money
Example Sentences
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The posts allow other Polymarket users to play along.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
“Tony doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and he won’t play along with the kind of thing where you hang out with the right industry people,” says Hues.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
She'd fallen in love with her mum's Elton John albums and wanted to play along.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Remembering that Mama had told me to play along with Daisy when she was telling me one of her stories, I said, “What did that old man have to say this time?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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