playmate

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Recent Examples of playmate Snook’s presence, Fanning shared, drew her to the role of Jenny Kaminski, mother to Jacob (Tayden Jax Ryan), Marissa’s son Milo’s (Duke McCloud) intended playmate. Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025 What’s hinted at is remembering and longing for the past and waking up to your own inner-playmate, no matter your age. Katie Grant, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025 Four dogs hoping for a game of fetch have melted hearts on the internet after trying to recruit the youngest member of their family as their new playmate. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025 The cubs will join the other females in the lion pride after successful, careful introductions, including Mashika, a 3-year-old female and half-sister to the cubs, who is their favorite playmate. Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for playmate
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Noun
  • De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Nedelman has assembled the book club over the decades, inviting women from different parts of her life, including investment clubs and Planned Parenthood organizing along with high school classmates.
    Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The memorandum claimed that the defendant had prior convictions for burglary in the 3rd degree, admitting to entering high school classmates' homes and stealing their underwear and possession of child pornography.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two months later, LaSota resurfaced in Pennsylvania, where state police, investigating the murder of the parents of a Rationalist named Jamie Zajko, found her in a hotel room rented to Zajko’s housemate, Daniel Blank.
    Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Miller joined the cast of Summer House as a former paramour of Gulbranson, sparking the ire of housemate and future Giggly Squad co-host Hannah Berner.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • He and his old Shelton schoolmate Brian Reilly (who is credited as producer, assistant editor and unit production manager on this film) started their KT Pictures company around eight years ago.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Kaveri Mehta is there to marry her childhood schoolmate turned sweetheart Abhinav Singh.
    Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The duo had been teammates on LSU’s Elite Eight team in 2023-24, and Van Lith credits Reese for helping her ease into the WNBA.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Sophomore catcher Jordan Lindsay’s RBI double to right field tied the game 1-1 before teammates followed the same hitting pattern for four runs in the inning.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His parents met in Seattle, where Michael had driven out with a roommate and teammate who was going to try out for the Seahawks.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Hisham Abugharbieh, Limon’s roommate and a former USF student, was charged last week with first-degree murder.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This subsequently sends the starship forward or backward in time, while occasionally (and inexplicably) transforming your shipmates into freaky clay heads.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Zumba, a Navy reservist who earlier was a shipmate of Urena on the destroyer USS Carney, pleaded guilty in December to the same charge.
    Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • At first glance, AI companions for lonely seniors can seem dystopian, looking less like innovation than a bleak sign of social failure.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But motormen had no such companion on the suburban routes, which could be lonely, and even dangerous, at night.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026

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“Playmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playmate. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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