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Recent Examples of costar
Noun
John Stamos is defending his former Full House costar Lori Loughlin for her part in the 2019 college admissions scandal, blaming her ex-husband Mossimo Giannulli. Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025 Steps away, costar Meryl Streep’s daughter, actress Grace Gummer, walked the carpet with husband Mark Ronson. Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Imogen Poots and Thora Birch, who costar in Stewart's first movie as a director, also appeared on the red carpet to support the film. Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025 Andrea Riseborough is also attached to costar in Ebenezer, though her role is being kept under wraps. Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for costar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for costar
Noun
  • Sentimental Value, in which Skarsgård plays a once-legendary director who is seeking to reconnect with his daughters, one of whom is an actress, won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Perfect Couple actress was previously married to Tom Cruise.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • LaKeith Stanfield is an easy standout as Parker’s best friend Grofield, a passionate actor who moonlights as a criminal to fund his dead-end theater company — some of the movie’s heartiest chuckles come from the joy Grofield takes in getting to ham things up as part of the heist.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Episode writer Zachary Reiter knows exactly how to ham up the calm before the storm, warming us up with sentimental moments (like a mother preparing her son for his first date) and frisky foreshadowing (of course there’s a couple getting it on in the bathroom).
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The photos showed the reality TV star sitting in an emergency room chair holding an ice pack to his face.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • On possession after possession, González picked up Brunson full court and tried his best to pester the Knicks star.
    Jay King, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Ryback shows the younger man's relaxation-as-growth around impressive set pieces, including a segment of aping famed concert pianists Alfred Brendel and Glenn Gould as well as Hoffman's blistering rant after a visit to Dachau.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Somehow, the Dodgers' bullpen is getting outs and keeping Los Angeles in games, a shocking development mainly due to the rise of Japanese starlet Roki Sasaki.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Injuries hurt, with the Trojans down to a walk-on running back, stunning for a program built on Heisman Trophy rushers.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Redshirt freshman walk-on King Miller had a breakout game against Michigan with 18 carries for 158 yards and a touchdown and rattled off a career-long rush of 49 yards.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the spirit of art imitating life, the episode calls attention to the proliferation of potentially toxic chemicals in the products many of us slather daily on our face, body and hair.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This provides my son with an opportunity to imitate me verbally and gesturally.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pic reps a reteam between Kolstad, producer Marc Provissiero and Bob Odenkirk, who previously worked on the Nobody franchise; those movies propelled the two-time Emmy-winning Better Call Saul star to action leading man status.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Jaylen Brown, Boston’s leading man in Tatum’s absence, was upgraded from questionable to active before tipoff against the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Costar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costar. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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