supporting player
Example Sentences
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It’s stepped in as a supporting player in main-course recipes, too, featuring duck, chicken, pork or venison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Ellis-Taylor frequently works within ensembles or as a supporting player, which she explains as a drive to portray interesting people no matter the size of the role.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
After all, audiences first met Agatha as a supporting player in Wanda’s own grief-stricken trek through TV history.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024
The Irish actor, though a regular presence in Nolan films going back almost two decades, had always been a supporting player.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023
They were stacked with talent—big, tough players, like Jason Zundel and Dallas Miller, and they had in Reggie a tenacious defender and supporting player.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
