Thesaurus results for PLAYMATE

playmate

noun

Definition of playmate

as in playfellow

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Recent Examples of playmate Pepper’s slow pace, long pauses before taking a turn, and apparent determination to win often clashed with participants’ expectations of how a human-like playmate should behave. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026 The criticism came amid the former Playboy playmate's recent Instagram post, which provided an update on her weight loss journey with the telehealth company Effecty. — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026 Laith is starved for playmates and nurturing male company, self-conscious of his awkward position as the sole male in an otherwise all-female environment. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 17 May 2026 While moisture and glue are typically not good playmates, vinyl, peel and stick, and non-woven wallpapers can easily withstand the splashes and steam of daily use. — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for playmate

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Noun

Alison Linder, assistant sustainability coordinator at Occidental College, which has a thrift store of its own with Halloween costumes in stock, encouraged people to organize their own swaps with neighbors, friends or school classmates.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Deguchi Natsuki plays Fujino, an outgoing student who draws manga for her school newspaper, and Makita Aju plays Kyomoto, a reclusive classmate who idolizes her work.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of classmate

Noun

My boyfriend and my housemate take me to the trails through the forest above the little cliffs along the Wissahickon.

— Daniel Barnum, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2026
The group of youngsters is led by Celebrini, housemate Will Smith, forwards Michael Misa and Igor Chernyshov, and defenseman Sam Dickinson.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of housemate

Noun

The dramatic recipe involves equal parts literary ambition, risk-taking, and chutzpah, with a dash of substance abuse, cooked on the high heat of adolescent lust that brings Tony to Provincetown in pursuit of a schoolmate named Nancy (Emilia Jones).

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
Her schoolmate, Curtis Mehlberg, follows her, and both are able to enter that magical world.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

Definition of schoolmate

Noun

Conwell has already made a strong impression on his new Heat coaches and teammates with his maturity after his four-year college career.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Ten seconds into the game, Gray curled off the right wing and took a pass from teammate Jordin Canada at the top of the key.

— Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of teammate

Noun

Instead, Stappenbeck testified, Mumby’s roommate called and told her to go to the hospital because there had been a crash.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
As one of their first witnesses, prosecutors called Karena Rosario, who found her roommate's lifeless, battered body.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of roommate

Noun

The father of Jessica’s shipmate, Joshua Aviles, also was detained by immigration agents, before later being released, according to his family.

— Norma Galeana, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
But a surviving shipmate heard the message and passed it on to Gómez Roca’s deputy, Lieutenant Commander Sergio Bazán, who headed toward Puerto Deseado.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of shipmate

Noun

At the time, Rastinejad and her colleagues wondered whether a black hole’s gravity had ripped up a companion neutron star, as if unseen godly hands had pulled it apart like dough.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Chiasson and Cole had last seen each at La Royal, another of Rondeau and Calderón’s restaurants, at a memorial for Glück, packed with her dinner companions.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of companion

Noun

Research partners recorded the various sounds that drones make when their propellers get chipped or cracked or their motor becomes damaged or begins to fail.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Investigators are working with Nigeria and international partners to review genomic findings and verify her movements and interactions in Uganda and en route to Abuja.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

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