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walk on
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to take unfair advantage of
He dislikes people who are willing to walk on others to get ahead.
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Recent Examples of walk-on
Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Some of the objections have come from walk-on football players, who aren’t eligible for payments, and athletes in small sports who are receiving very small payments.
—Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Guiton inherits a quarterback room that will look almost entirely different from last season, save for the return of redshirt freshman walk-on Milos Spasojevic.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Toward the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosé, the far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a pair of recent smashes, but who clearly want some of this refracted salaciousness for themselves.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Zach Carter, a 34-year-old walk-on head coach, has guided Bellflower High to its first league basketball championship since 1978 in his second season as a head coach.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Some of the objections have come from walk-on football players, who aren’t eligible for payments, and athletes in small sports who are receiving very small payments.
—Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Guiton inherits a quarterback room that will look almost entirely different from last season, save for the return of redshirt freshman walk-on Milos Spasojevic.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Toward the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosé, the far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a pair of recent smashes, but who clearly want some of this refracted salaciousness for themselves.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walk-on
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
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Bell’s costar Adam Brody was also nominated in his role on the show.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
23 Feb. 2025
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Stan reunited with his costar, Adam Pearson from A Different Man, while Andrew Scott caught up with actor Jay Ellis.—
Paul Chi,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The extras An all-new 24-inch, 4K entertainment screen is front and center at every seat.—
Chris Dong,
AFAR Media,
26 Feb. 2025
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Many crystal decanter sets come with extras like glass coasters, personalized engraving, stainless steel chilling spheres or recipe books.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Gold and Diamond Evening Purse: Estimated Value $100,000 to $200,000 Taylor was seen with her gold and diamond evening purse in December 1964, when the actress and her then-husband, Richard Burton, attended the Lido premiere, which was a burlesque show, in Paris, per Julien’s.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
27 Feb. 2025
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The song’s music video also stars Indian actress, Disha Patani.—
Katie Cao,
Billboard,
27 Feb. 2025
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Michelle Monaghan is actress Jaclyn Lemon: The TV star is famous enough to be recognized by other guests (and paid for her childhood friends' vacations).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher may be going through a $75 million divorce, but the Borat star only had good things to say about his ex in her new post.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Walk-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walk-on. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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