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
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
While best known for scene-stealing appearances as a supporting player, Mr. Norman was always more than a character actor.
From New York Times • May 25, 2024
Long a stalwart supporting player and something of an actor’s actor, Jeffrey Wright received his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for his lead performance in “American Fiction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024
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
