as in playmate
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Recent Examples of playfellow
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.
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Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playfellow
Noun
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Maybe, but Crow is quite literally there: a menacing big bird who has come into the room to interface with Cumberbatch, to be his supernatural playmate and philosopher and tough-love therapist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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The United States is playing this game with the ruthlessness of a child grabbing all the blocks from their playmate, determined to leave them empty-handed.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Reach out to former colleagues, classmates, and acquaintances who have relevant skills and experience.—
Abdo Riani,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Lars told a story of making a prom dress for a classmate in high school that ignited his passion for design.—
Layla Ilchi,
WWD,
27 Feb. 2025
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The principal — who demurred when asked about his schoolmate’s high school years — said the gardener always paid attention to the little things.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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But Driscoll was a schoolmate of Vice President JD Vance.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2024
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But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Sep. 2019
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As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.—
Roger Angell,
The New Yorker,
6 June 2019
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Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman similarly worried some teammates might flippantly request a challenge that would be better spent on a more important, game-critical pitch.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
21 Feb. 2025
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Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates disembarked from their team plane in Kansas City on Wednesday bundled up in ski hats and parkas.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Unlike so many of his now former colleagues who are 50-plus and still coaching, Brown has no feeling of disgust or disappointment over the radically different world that is college football in 2025.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Feb. 2025
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The left-hander still scored freely but refused to perish prematurely like some of his colleagues.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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The next day, Gronkowski and his two housemates arrived home from the Super Bowl in Minneapolis and noticed the basement door was broken.—
Alex Andrejev,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article A Long Island man who fatally stabbed his 63-year-old housemate has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, prosecutors announced Tuesday.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Playfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playfellow. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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