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Recent Examples of costar
Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 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
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
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Noun
Aniston's Horrible Bosses costar Jason Bateman and his wife, Amanda Anka, were among the group.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for costar
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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Oldest son Luke was a walk-on at Texas, and earned a scholarship after one season.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Art imitating life a little bit.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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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
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Both the leading man’s charisma and the setting’s local color shine through immediately, gifting us with a winning hero and an upbeat, lively journey.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Witcher is gearing up for its first season without its leading man, Henry Cavill.—
Kelsey Lentz,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Costar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costar. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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