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Recent Examples of costar
Noun
Hannah wed his Sliding Doors costar Joanna Roth in 1996. Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025 Kardashian was joined on her night out by all of her costars from All’s Fair—the new Ryan Murphy show. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
The actress and producer is also setting out on directing her own feature film for the first time with a new movie titled A Tree Is Blue, which will costar Jessica Alba and Charli xcx. Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 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
  • Emma Thompson is a two-time Oscar winner, taking home best actress for Howards End (1992) and best adapted screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Roemer and the couple's daughter both wore mint green dresses, with the Disturbia actress, 40, looking elegant in a halter neckline and their daughter wearing a tulle dress with a flower design on it.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 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
  • But the game did end with Vanderbilt safety CJ Heard showing blitz at the line of scrimmage, then bailing out to help Jordan Matthews double Auburn star receiver Cam Coleman in the end zone.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But the very nature of the connection between stars and their audience is now evolving, according to the IMDb report.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Nor had the Wildcats met a walk-on like King Miller, the redshirt freshman running back who continued to do the work of the two injured scholarship stars in front of him, on Friday running for 90 yards on nine first-half carries.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, on the other sideline, Syracuse coach Fran Brown inexplicably started a true freshman walk-on from the lacrosse team, Joe Filardi, who completed four passes, then got pulled for another freshman, Luke Carney, who got sacked on his only dropback.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Art imitating life a little bit.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As the feud between Golden Bachelor stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist continues to heat up amid the release of the former leading man’s memoir, Nist is making a shocking new claim.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The hunky leading man was happy to take on the moniker.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Costar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costar. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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