bit player
Example Sentences
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Experts say 2025 heralds the Grinch’s ascent from Yuletide bit player to Christmas A-lister.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
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
Back in 2007, Heighberger was a bit player in a relatively trivial, albeit troubling, instance of government deception.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2024
He could have been a bit player on a Saturday morning children’s show.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
