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
Like anchovies or miso, sun-dried tomatoes work best when they aren’t the star, but the sly supporting player.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025
And Ohtani is not simply a supporting player.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2023
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
