make-believe
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And while nearly a third of adults (29%) thought their children preferred spending time playing on a computer, just 15% of kids chose computing as the best way to pass the time, compared to 22% who chose make-believe play.
According to the New York Daily News, Evans told KDVR-TV that he was merely playing a game during recess at the school when he threw an imaginary grenade into a box that contained make-believe evil forces.
That people will ignore their jobs and the government because they're lost in a make-believe world?
Yes, Yule time is a period of merry make-believe, enjoy it while it's here, but let's all get real in the new year
This is another version of what I call the Washington equation: make-believe equals survival.
Boyd said he had blurred the lines between reality and make-believe as he assumed a character called Buho, a Shaman, or magical elf, in the Shadowrun game, he said at his trial last month.
But it was all make-believe, so no wonder he's smiling.
We are hard men for hard times, and we want hard make-believe conundrums.
But del Toro is very much pushing the ``either'' in the either/or equation, blurring the lines beautifully to show that the boundaries between what we see as reality and make-believe don't exist at all.
The last condition is young children's engagement in well-developed make-believe play.
Media and The Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland.
His latest exhibition, "Expedition," though also the visible manifestation of an elaborate fiction, this time a make-believe safari, also suggests that Zaiser is on an excursion along his own artistic frontier.
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- make up
- make up a lack
- make up for
- make up one’s mind
- make use of
- make use of without permission
- make useless
- make valid
- make valueless
- make visible
- make vivid
- make void
- make vulnerable
- make war
- make way
- make way for
- make weak
- make well
- make whole
- make wholesome
- make wholly without effect
- make wicked
- make worse
- make wrathful
- make written application
- make-believe
- maker
- makeshift
- makeup
- making
- making amends
- making apparent
- making aware
- making distinct
- making evident
- Making his law
- making intelligible
- making less
- making lucid
- making one
- making over
- making perspicuous
- making precise
- making public
- making ready
- making reference
- making sense
- making specific
- making trenchant
- making useless
- mala fides
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- make yourself heard
- make yourself known
- make yourself known to
- make yourself known to somebody
- make yourself known to someone
- make yourself miserable
- make yourself ready
- make yourself ready for
- make yourself ready for her
- make yourself ready for him
- make yourself ready for me
- make yourself ready for someone
- make yourself ready for something
- make yourself ready for them
- make yourself ready for us
- make yourself ready for you
- make yourself scarce
- make yourself understood
- make yourself useful
- make, cause, etc. a splash
- make, etc. a mint
- make, etc. something by/with your own fair hand
- make, lose, spend, etc. a packet
- Make, Model, Series
- Make-A-Store, Inc.
- Make-a-Wish Foundation
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
- Make-A-Wish of Japan
- make-and-break circuit
- make-belief
- make-believe
- make-believed
- make-believed
- make-believely
- make-believely
- make-believes
- make-believes
- make-believing
- make-believing
- Make-Break
- make-break operation
- make-busy
- Make-Buy Decision tree
- make-do
- make-do's
- make-dos
- Make-game
- Make-Good
- Make-Good
- Make-Goods
- Make-It-Yourself
- Make-live
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-buy decision
- make-out
- make-out artist
- make-out artists
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