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  • noun Plural form of playfield.

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Examples

  • But Paulson is asking the taxpayers of this City and even the State to invest over $250 Million including debt service on bonds to pay for his playfields.

    "Everyman Paulson might leave if he doesn't get his way" (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • "I had no idea it was so complete," Mrs. Swift commented, as they passed the dock area with its numerous boats and the playfields for tennis, baseball, and other sports.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • The zoom echo playfields effect was a fairly straightforward execution at this point since i had done a different version of that earlier in the piece.

    chain factor: the video – an ant hill into a mountain 2009

  • I toyed around with trying to make the playfields change opacity over time, but having multiple layers on top of each other achieved the effect well enough and any more lessened the impact of the swinging pendulum which i still wanted to be main focus. i did put the opacity of all of the layers back to 100% when they all came back in a collapse to try to create more visual tension.

    chain factor: the video – an ant hill into a mountain 2009

  • I systematically created two ‘echo playfields’ that would zoom out to 1000 percent centered on a random spot, then two ‘echo playfields’ that would zoom in to zero percent centered on a random spot.

    chain factor: the video – an ant hill into a mountain 2009

  • We could, if we wanted to, make the local school campus a 24/7 center of the community, with clinics, social centers and dining facilities, community college and technical training, low income and mixed use housing development, pools and playfields, all in walkable distance of one another, reducing the cost of each individual effort and maximizing the use we get from each building.

    Matthew Yglesias » Public Health Versus Health Care Financing 2007

  • Notice the grass and playfields in the foreground.

    Post deleted by johanson 2004

  • As it stands now, Seattle Parks is too busy tearing up the natural grass playfields and replacing them with plastic and rubber carpeting all over the city.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Krugman Completes Daou Triangle 2006

  • When last I had cable, there were 3-D news graphics and sports were starting to create yellow lines on playfields where yellow lines do not actually exist, but now it's everywhere.

    Tune In, Turn On, Veg Out 2006

  • I have known dogs, and I have known school heroes that, set aside the fur, could hardly have been told apart; and if we desire to understand the chivalry of old, we must turn to the school playfields or the dungheap where the dogs are trooping.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

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