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Recent Examples of playmate
Limit use to short sessions: Treat the toy like TV, fun in moderation, not a substitute for playmates.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Four dogs hoping for a game of fetch have melted hearts on the internet after trying to recruit the youngest member of their family as their new playmate.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
In childhood, siblings are often each other’s first friends and playmates as well as earliest rivals and competitors.
—Our Place, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The cubs will join the other females in the lion pride after successful, careful introductions, including Mashika, a 3-year-old female and half-sister to the cubs, who is their favorite playmate.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Four dogs hoping for a game of fetch have melted hearts on the internet after trying to recruit the youngest member of their family as their new playmate.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
In childhood, siblings are often each other’s first friends and playmates as well as earliest rivals and competitors.
—Our Place, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The cubs will join the other females in the lion pride after successful, careful introductions, including Mashika, a 3-year-old female and half-sister to the cubs, who is their favorite playmate.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playmate
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De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
Forbes,
7 Oct. 2021
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On the date of the incident, Dylan and her classmates were on a training platform about 16 feet below the surface.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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My kindergarten classmates tended to gravitate towards calligraphy, swimming, ballet and English conversation classes, but I would rather be caught dead than do anything that involved ‘learning together’.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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On Tuesday’s episode, housemate Jenny Baird asked Glasson whether having kids was part of his life plan.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
15 Oct. 2025
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Rocha also did not take the stand, with the defense using the lead investigator on the case, Kansas City police detective Jeremy Wells, and Rocha’s housemate, Emily Ridout, as their only two witnesses.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
2 Oct. 2025
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As an Oviedo resident and schoolboy, joining Gijón’s academy certainly brought scrutiny from schoolmates.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
24 Sep. 2025
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For the series, Cooper took on the role of Jaime, a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a schoolmate.—
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The team posted a photo of the two of them on X alongside another photo of Ohtani's teammate Mookie Betts and his wife, Brianna Hammonds.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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Reed stared down Detroit’s bench as his teammates met him with enthusiasm while Cunningham went the other way in transition.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The millennial co-founded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Later, Mignini served as the prosecutor in the Amanda Knox case, in which Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007, and later acquitted.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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According to the Navy, Peterson kept the ship operational and was credited with saving the lives of 123 of his shipmates before succumbing to his injuries.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
27 June 2025
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And his castaway shipmate has marvelously oversized whiskers, formidable fangs and a ravenous appetite.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
5 June 2025
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The film follows a couple in crisis as Lawrence’s Grace, a woman transplanted to rural America with her companion Jackson, slowly starts to slip into madness.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Oct. 2025
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Sharon and Kelly Osbourne both poured their hearts out on social media over the death of Elvis, their furry companion.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Playmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playmate. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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