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sparring partner
noun as in practice partner
Weak matches
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At the very least, he would make a thoughtful and high-minded sparring partner for Clinton in the debates that lie ahead.
Johansson needed a sparring partner, and a young, brash man, just a year out of the amateurs, volunteered.
SMUG is willing to fight it out and has a willing sparring partner in Lively, who has been sued five times by gay activists.
She was with her on most of the major swims of the 1970s, is a friend, adviser, and sparring partner.
He had had no sparring partner, and his food had not been of the best nor always sufficient.
Bit thick, I mean to say, a sparring-partner going at him like that.
Then he was a sparring partner, I think they call it, for a prizefighter.
He's been sparring partner of one of the champions and he thinks a good deal of himself.
It was the fact that Bugs Butler was lowering himself to extend his powers against a sparring-partner that shocked Mr. Burrowes.
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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sparring partner, such as: boxer, palooka, second, and sparring mate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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