Demonstrated
Demonstrated adjective - Having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt.
Played and demonstrated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Played" instead an adjective "Demonstrated".
Played
Played adjective - (of games) engaged in.
Demonstrated and played are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Demonstrated" instead an adjective "Played".
Both words in one sentence
- Hyde that, despite (or likely because of) how bad he demonstrated the game was, many played it anyway, thinking "It can't be that bad."
Source: Misaimed Fandom / Web Media -
A stage adaptation gives her pigtails speaking parts, and the animated adaptation makes her pigtails controllable, demonstrated when Leslie played bongos with them.
Source: Girlish Pigtails -
Sean Bean and the Stark clan use appropriately Grim Northern accents; Wildlings have similar accents, shading towards Scottish (as demonstrated by Ygritte—incidentally also played by Rose Leslie, who again actually speaks RP despite being Scottish on account of how she's actually upper-class).
Source: Useful Notes / British Accents
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