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Recent Examples of playmate
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.
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Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Would Gertie, the dinosaur that stands in Echo Lake at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, like a playmate?
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Would Gertie, the dinosaur that stands in Echo Lake at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, like a playmate?
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playmate
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Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in South Florida in 2018, said some of Jaime's classmates now attend FSU.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
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The murder trial of a high school student who admitted to stabbing his classmate to death kicked off in Texas this week.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Rourke was nominated with JoJo Siwa’s killer nomination, a power which automatically put a housemate up for eviction.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
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Everyone in the study began taking their pills once a day within three days of when their housemate first reported symptoms of COVID-19.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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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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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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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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The Devils’ Kurtis MacDermid and the Flyers’ Nicolas Deslauriers, for example, once lived together as roommates during Kings development camp.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Some of the cancellations appear to be connected to things as minor as roommate disputes or as off-campus traffic tickets, university officials said, while others appear to be connected to pro-Palestinian protest participation.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Its investigators also obtained video clips that mentioned North Koreans being on board and showed shipmates speaking in Korean.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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Martin and a companion on April 27, 2023, entered the Washington, DC, museum and smeared washable red and black paint on the case protecting Edgar Degas’s 1881 Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in an effort to bring attention to the climate crisis.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Apr. 2025
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The cougars were paired as companions for their similar personalities and age, officials said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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For Lyn and Lisa Alessi, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alessi International, a local fabric importer representing mills in Asia and Europe, the tariffs could pose significant challenges to their business, which works with international partners to produce fabrics for high-end clothing companies.—
Julia Doyle,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Trump announced a 90-day pause on countries that have not retaliated, temporarily lowering the high tariffs on nearly all trading partners to a baseline 10%, while raising the tax rate on imports from China, which had retaliated with tit-for-tat hikes on U.S. imports, to 125%.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Playmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playmate. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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