as in supporter
someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support
a child-welfare cause that has made bedfellows of activists who are normally on opposite ends of the political spectrum
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Recent Examples of bedfellow
Convenience and inaction are often bedfellows.
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Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
That makes for some interesting bedfellows, by the way.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
Drummers and electronic devices make strange bedfellows.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
Both Snyder and Gordon referenced the fact that previous meetings of the federal body had brought together unlikely bedfellows, like Singer sitting next to Lyn Redwood, a nurse practitioner who aligns with Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism.
—O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 19 Mar. 2026
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Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
That makes for some interesting bedfellows, by the way.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
Drummers and electronic devices make strange bedfellows.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
Both Snyder and Gordon referenced the fact that previous meetings of the federal body had brought together unlikely bedfellows, like Singer sitting next to Lyn Redwood, a nurse practitioner who aligns with Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism.
—O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedfellow
Noun
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Other supporters traveled from elsewhere in the city and included Miki Yamashita, who runs the asiansforpratt Instagram page.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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Police ‘grease the poles’ regularly before NFL games, in an attempt to prevent supporters from climbing them.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Noun
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Braun had an unlikely poetic ally in the mystery novelist Dorothy Sayers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen have previously attacked ships in the Red Sea and around the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which serves as the southern gateway to the Red Sea much like the Strait of Hormuz serves as the gateway to the Persian Gulf.—
May 19,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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“Bedfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedfellow. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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