But have you ever heard of the word "pun", a play on words?

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So, it's kind of a play on words in his - a play on words - a creative word play that he was doing here.

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The term is a play on words, of course, and an example of the old marketing trick of avoiding the baggage of one phrase by inventing another.

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The group is also known in longer form as Lulz Security - where "Lulz" is a play on words of the popular internet phrase "lol", meaning "laugh out loud".

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Deevy wrote complex characters, and the irony within this play often depends on actors projecting emotions without words.

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With facial characteristics, better intonation, programmed responses to our motions and words, robots now are machines that play on our instincts to communicate and connect.

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The battles are relayed as breaking news on television screens and messengers' words in the play are at times voiced by newsreaders.

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To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.

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In other words, only people who are already fit and healthy want to play the game on the open web.

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In other words, the economy has changed in a way that allows the most talented to play on a larger stage to a larger audience.

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