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Recent Examples of playmate
While some owners might opt to add a playmate to the mix, not all cats desire having another pet in the house.
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Liz O'Connell, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
But craving collaboration and loving my audiences made that same crowd my playmates, my bandmates.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Maybe, but Crow is quite literally there: a menacing big bird who has come into the room to interface with Cumberbatch, to be his supernatural playmate and philosopher and tough-love therapist.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
The United States is playing this game with the ruthlessness of a child grabbing all the blocks from their playmate, determined to leave them empty-handed.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Liz O'Connell, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
But craving collaboration and loving my audiences made that same crowd my playmates, my bandmates.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Maybe, but Crow is quite literally there: a menacing big bird who has come into the room to interface with Cumberbatch, to be his supernatural playmate and philosopher and tough-love therapist.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
The United States is playing this game with the ruthlessness of a child grabbing all the blocks from their playmate, determined to leave them empty-handed.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playmate
Noun
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One month after Amber’s murder, Williams visited her daughter’s elementary school classmates.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Despite deciding not to interact with his classmates Si-eun winds up talking to Jun-tae, played by Choi Min-young (XO, Kitty, Twenty Five Twenty One).—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In an interview alongside Big Brother housemate Chris Hughes, Siwa talked about the end of her relationship.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
28 Apr. 2025
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Curio box made of cigarette packets with portraits of housemates, late nineteen-sixties.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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A number of survivors of that shooting now attend FSU, including schoolmates of his late daughter, Montalto told CBS News.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Almost a decade in the making, and currently in post-production, the film will recount the harrowing story of the nine Charbonneau sisters and their childhood schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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Whether Banchero and Wagner have enough confidence in their teammates to hit open shots is a fair question.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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LeBron James James takes a back seat to his new teammate this time around, coming in third.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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In a separate ruling, Hippler said that the jury will be able to hear the 911 call made the following day by the victim’s two roommates as well as the exchange of text messages between the surviving roommates at 4 a.m. when one of them spotted a masked man in the house.—
Elaine Mallon,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Apr. 2025
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The three women lived at the off-campus home with the other two female roommates, while Chapin was Kernodle’s boyfriend and slept over for the night.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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The North Koreans’ former shipmates remembered them showing videos of military parades and their leader, Mr. Kim, giving speeches.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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The All Stars 10 cast will also appear on companion episodes of Untucked, which returns to the streaming network alongside the new season.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Claire, a 27-year-old woman from Oregon, took to TikTok to reveal what had happened to her four-legged feline companion Tutti.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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Chris recruits Brax to help as well as a room of brilliant computer wizards led by Justine, Chris' partner with nonverbal autism who communicates via a British computer voice.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Paramount is an equal co-fi partners with Sega on the $122M production cost, but the Melrose lot also gets a distribution fee off the top.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Playmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playmate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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