playmates

plural of playmate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for playmates
Noun
  • The joy of setting a beautiful table and the convenience of throwaway dishes are no longer mutually exclusive thanks to Pavilion, a design-forward paper plate company dreamed up by a pair of grad school classmates.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Now in their mid-30s, the former classmates are being forced to return home and finish high school once and for all.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Our thoughts and prayers are with his girlfriend Catalina, family, friends and his teammates.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Antetokounmpo received plenty of help from his teammates Friday night.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Kaylee Goncalves also felt as though she was being watched and stalked in the weeks before she was murdered alongside two of her roommates and one roommate's boyfriend.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beginning in 2012, my colleagues and I helped thousands of interdisciplinary teams at IBM become more entrepreneurial, more agile, and more customer-focused.
    Phil Gilbert, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Some of their most politically vulnerable members are returning to Washington desperate to keep colleagues in both chambers from losing interest in immediate results.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Reformation’s retail outposts then become places for customers to socialize, try on clothes, interact with associates, serving as brand conversion hubs.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • According to the press release, the park employed about 70 full-time associates.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Pine Ridge, South Dakota — A four-pack of rez dogs trotted toward the lone grocery store, greeting and tailing human companions in hopes of a spare scrap.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Google Gemini and ChatGPT are both found in the classroom and in the workplace, and don’t, for the most part, purport to be companions.
    Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Would this rhetoric spread and become mainstream among many of my peers?
    Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Their mom, Alyssa Crawford, shared two images of herself with her daughter Violet, with text alluding to the 4-year-old’s height being smaller than her peers.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Family members, friends, and contemporaries in the industry have been posting tributes following the news.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 10 Nov. 2025
  • The idea has come up in internal BBC News meetings and been ventilated on BBC airwaves by friends of the corporation like David Yelland, once a key figure in the Murdoch empire and now a communications specialist with his own BBC podcast.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Playmates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playmates. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

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