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What does at play mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at play? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. Playing, in the process of playing.
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Third, the public believes that there is a self-correcting mechanism at play with respect to the Court.
This tension between image and interpretation was also at play in the early days of photography.
Of all the objects, places, concepts, and titanic forces at play in 2004, the most monumental, influential, and ascendant is surely the blog.
The two continuums frequently overlap, which is what makes it hard to decipher all the metamessages at play in a conversation.
Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works.
In other words, Darwinian processes of natural selection are now at play in the science media.

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