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Recent Examples of costar
Noun
Her Godfather costar, Al Pacino, was one of her boyfriends in real life. Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025 The lead-up to the release has also meant an opportunity to reconnect with his costars. Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
Hébert Gregory was also remembered by her Vice Principals costar Walton Goggins, who mourned the loss on Instagram. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025 He was photographed alongside his fiancée and Spider-Man costar Zendaya at the event, which was held at Christie’s auction house in London. Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for costar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for costar
Noun
  • The Faye, named after actress Faye Dunaway, is cut with an open toe, ultra-thin straps and a small buckle-fastening ankle strap.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Diane Keaton's family revealed the late actress' cause of death on Wednesday.
    Jasmine Baehr , Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 16 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
  • Rowling continues to speak out and be drawn into online battles about her views, but the controversies don’t seem to be affecting the star power behind new Potter projects.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And the stars really did align for Grogan and the team.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 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
  • The film tells the tale of a young Pakistani man from a patriarchal family who joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious transgender starlet.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The starlet attended Coach’s New York Fashion Week show on September 15 draped in light-wash denim pieces (a riff on her patchwork purse, naturally), her blonde hair set in piecey waves framing her light, glowy makeup.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On an evening that began with panic in USC’s backfield, the walk-on gave Riley reason to exhale amid the chaos.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Chad Powers was inspired by the real-life events of Eli going undercover at Penn State to try out as a walk-on quarterback during a 2022 episode of Eli's Places.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some will welcome it; there is certainly an argument that the attempts to imitate Guardiola’s style, playing from the back against high-class opponents with a plan to press them into mistakes, led to some coaches leading their teams like lambs to the slaughter.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In an instance of art imitating life, the film's soundtrack also achieved great success as the highest-debuting soundtrack of 2025 on the Billboard 200.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, the world has expanded and splintered and niche-ified itself in ways even Wolfe—who was certainly the leading man in his own movie, strolling down Madison Avenue in a white three-piece suit and homburg hat as the culture wars of the 60s raged on—might not have imagined.
    Julia Vitale, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In an interview with PEOPLE in September, Welch pulled back the curtain on her Chad Powers appearance and recalled meeting Powell, the show’s leading man.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Costar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costar. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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