bit player

Example Sentences

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Xu is a bit player in what has become one of the biggest segments of China’s labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Rolls-Royce is a bit player in a market that has powerful and successful leaders, and that rival Pratt and Witney lost $8bn trying and failing to break into.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

But South Africa’s leader was nothing more than a bit player in this tableau, while the white Afrikaners under supposed threat of extermination didn’t even get speaking parts.

From Salon • May 25, 2025

Was the Society a prime mover, or a bit player?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

He could have been a bit player on a Saturday morning children’s show.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee