Plays
Take on
Take on verb - To enter into contest or conflict with.
Both terms in one sentence
- One team tends to take on this role every season in Madden NFL, depending on whichever play or group of plays are considered Game Breakers that year.
- In Alice in Wonderland she plays the White Queen as a sort of darker take on her earlier innocent characters.
Source: Playing with Character Type -
Smallville plays this painfully straight with their take on the Martian Manhunter, who even winds up sacrificing his powers for Clark.
Source: Magical Negro
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Take on and Plays. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plays/take_on
Plays & Take on. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plays/take_on>.
Take on or Plays. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plays/take_on.
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