Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for star (in)
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The actors joked about how trying to put on medical gloves quickly enough while remembering and acting out dialogue can make scenes go sideways in a heartbeat.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Dec. 2025 -
Ordained to the Catholic priesthood in June, Jimenez was watching as parishioners acted out the Nativity scene during a posada, a Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem in search of shelter.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Dec. 2025
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Starting at $1,500 Rock band The Killers will perform Super Bowl weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts, headlining a night of music and magic.—
Lauren Chapman,
Sacbee.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Stenvik cancelled the annual all-district band concert, scheduled for last week, in which players from the elementary, middle, and high schools perform together on one stage.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
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It cannot even be interpreted like that.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Understanding Latin America is not merely a requirement for interpreting headlines about Venezuela but a prerequisite for Americans to understand themselves and their place in the world.—
Ana L. Ros,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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The administration is playing a blame game over the initial characterization of Pretti, Axios reports.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Dak already has shot past the championship game deadline in that no other quarterback has ever begun his career with a team and played 10 seasons without reaching the NFC or AFC title game, then reached a Super Bowl with that team later in his career.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Recently, Katie Holmes proved the hypothesis true, stepping out in a supremely elegant take on classic flats that's guaranteed to have a popularity surge come spring.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
31 Jan. 2026
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Once used as a form of punishment for prisoners, this kind of training has taken on many forms for more than a century.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
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While the district has since acted to stop these payments, a serious lack of control was exhibited.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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And yet there’s something moving about it, the spectacle of all these kids play-acting a previous generation’s trauma, as if they too will soon be swept up in it.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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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
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Republicans portrayed the move as partisan and urged an appeal.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Jan. 2026
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Erika Toda portrays Hosoki, while Sairi Ito plays Minori Uozumi, a writer tasked with ghostwriting Hosoki’s autobiography.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Star (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/star%20%28in%29. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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