understudy
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But on Saturday, the quarterback who had chosen to become an understudy was suddenly asked to become a savior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
I was cast as an understudy on the soap opera “One Life to Live.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
That would leave Estevao Willian, Pedro Neto and new signing Geovany Quenda competing for places on the right and Jamie Gittens as his understudy.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
When Hiller did, general manager Ken Holland promoted his understudy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
New to the company, a lowly understudy to an understudy.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Gardner makes his job look easy, but he says his understudies accused him of downplaying just how challenging it can be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Viewers watch as Jeanine intellectualizes each character’s motivations and inner thoughts, dictating them to the performers onstage and their understudies.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
His understudies, Jake Oettinger and Jeremy Swayman, are arguably better than any other goalie in the tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2025
Harry Kane is obviously England's first-choice striker but a back injury sharpens the focus on his understudies.
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
We are on sufferance, we are only understudies in the love drama, but fortunately the star seldom appears on the scene.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
He began studying the Tar Pits' relatively understudied reptile and amphibian collections while working there as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
She said it is too new and understudied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
But the particulars of Arthur Liu’s pathway—single father by choice via surrogacy—have been largely understudied and, despite those high-profile examples, receive little public attention.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
He recently analysed just how understudied most other bacteria have been relative to E. coli.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The girl who understudied her, and who will play the part on the road, isn’t half so stunning.
From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
And the next day, I got cast understudying Faith Prince and Kate Nelligan in “Bad Habits,” a play at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
Now graduated, Shavit-Lonstein works two day jobs while “swinging” — understudying multiple roles — in “Winnie the Pooh” at StoryBook Theater in Kirkland.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
It was there where Poitier was given the role of understudying Belafonte in "Days of our Youth."
From Fox News ● Jan. 8, 2022
My fantasy is that the actor I’m understudying books some big Marvel movie.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Lawson, on the lookout for models, had discovered a girl who was understudying at one of the theatres, and in order to induce her to sit to him arranged a little luncheon-party one Sunday.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Vocabulary lists containing understudy
Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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