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Recent Examples of scene-stealer
In this throwback to ’80s slasher movies, AHS veterans Roberts, Lourd, Fern, Rabe, McDermott, and Leslie Grossman join a cast of newcomers, including Matthew Morrison and scene-stealer Angelica Ross.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
Howard, a queen bee with a racy reputation, became a scene-stealer with her emotional outbursts and volatile friendship with Maddy (Alexa Demie).
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Fellow scene-stealer Love, by contrast, was still ascendant and much rougher around the edges.
—Justin Ravitz, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
The real scene-stealer just might be Dinklage, who is pitch-perfect as Mitch, the unsympathetic toy-store boss with an eagle eye for suddenly missing inventory like Peanut M&Ms.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
Howard, a queen bee with a racy reputation, became a scene-stealer with her emotional outbursts and volatile friendship with Maddy (Alexa Demie).
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Fellow scene-stealer Love, by contrast, was still ascendant and much rougher around the edges.
—Justin Ravitz, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
The real scene-stealer just might be Dinklage, who is pitch-perfect as Mitch, the unsympathetic toy-store boss with an eagle eye for suddenly missing inventory like Peanut M&Ms.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scene-stealer
Noun
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Lionel Messi’s first-half double ensured Miami would go through, all despite Luis Suárez serving a one-match suspension.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Apparently each set of doubles is supposed to add up to a coherent theme.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The comedian wore dangly diamond and pearl earrings and styled her hair in soft waves.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Wanda Sykes made sure that comedian Ricky Gervais — a comedian whose past material raised eyebrows and allegations of transphobia — shared his big 2026 Golden Globes night with a higher power and the transgender community.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Next up: Derrick Alexander Former Chiefs QB Alex Smith recently joked that wide receivers were the prima donnas of the locker room — with some colorful language to drive the point home.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 July 2025
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Gothic gargoyles appeared, lights dimmed, and the crowd chanted the prima donna’s name at the desert operahouse.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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Williams has served as an understudy to both Ward and Beck the last two seasons, but the 6-foot-5, 220-pound Williams has only thrown 19 passes this season in mop-up duty.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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As a rookie with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2019, Minshew opened as Nick Foles’ understudy.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Still, Slater, who's in a relationship with his costar in the franchise, Ariana Grande, offered a few words on the subject.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
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In July 2023, PEOPLE learned that Ariana Grande and her Wicked costar Slater were dating.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Scenes are often crowded with supernumeraries.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
30 Mar. 2023
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One of West Hartford’s earlier patrol officers, Martin McCue, started as a part-time supernumerary in 1929 and became a full-time officer a year later.—
Don Stacom,
courant.com,
12 Nov. 2020
Noun
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Director David Ellenstein has assembled a strong quartet of farceurs who easily slide in and out of a multitude of characters, accents, funny wigs, moustaches, costumes and prop glasses while running in and out of the 25 doors on scenic designer Marty Burnett’s simple but effective set.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hilty is a master farceur, far more adept than most of her peers at physical comedy, but also a lovable, slightly scary diva.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Scene-stealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scene-stealer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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