understudy

Example Sentences

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Therefore I propose that someone with a keen sense of the theatrical, a talent for mimicry and improvising dialogue—a playwright, perhaps?—be engaged as an understudy to the ghost, as it were.”

From Literature

Nancy remembered that an understudy was someone who learned a starring role in case he or she might have to be a substitute at the last minute.

From Literature

The understudy, as Powers calls her, was not as excited by the whole thing.

From Seattle Times

The thrill of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” a revival of the 1978 musical is, aptly, its dancers: 16 cast members and six understudies.

From New York Times

Together we honed in on wildfires in Alaska and thought about the mental health impacts because it overlapped with our areas of expertise and was a super understudied area.

From Salon