Thesaurus results for PLAY-BY-PLAYS

play-by-plays

noun

plural of play-by-play

as in analyses

a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event) on Monday mornings she usually gives her coworkers a detailed play-by-play on how her weekend date went

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The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, or OIRA, doesn’t require that agencies perform cost-benefit analyses of regulations imposed on individuals.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
The study combined technological, petrographic, and geochemical analyses of pottery fragments recovered from a kiln at Qurayyah.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of analyses

Noun

Mittelman also recorded some 200 brief commentaries on especially significant productions.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Additionally, several legal and policy commentaries stress that the absence of direct consumer refunds reflects statutory and administrative constraints rather than a deliberate effort to deny households relief.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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With surveying capabilities more than 1,000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope, Roman will capture fundamentally different scientific observations that can’t be done with either Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Those observations will inform an aspirational future mission — the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which aims to view Earth-like planets more than 1 billion times dimmer than their host stars.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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