sidekick
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Who, then, was the sidekick in that relationship?
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
And so it will, for at least several more years, Austin Reaves now occupying a Laker leading sidekick role made famous during their championship years by the likes of Anthony Davis and Pau Gasol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“The Mandalorian,” in which Pedro Pascal plays a bounty hunter who works with a sidekick that fans nicknamed “Baby Yoda,” has been the most successful and a big hit in consumer-product sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Opening for Sykes was her former sidekick on “The Wanda Sykes Show,” Keith Robinson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
He stood up, brushed off his backside, and clapped his sidekick on the shoulder.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In “Predator: Badlands,” that involved giving an ugly monster emotional vulnerability and a PG-13 adventure with a couple sidekicks, including a chatty android played by Elle Fanning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
They’re like Boris and Natasha, if Boris and Natasha had gay sidekicks whose equally unsurprising side plot would’ve made a more thorny and altogether insightful critique of contemporary social politics.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
Can imperfect sidekicks and second-fiddlers like Camelot’s court jester and Sir Palomides, the Saracen knight, save the realm when Arthur reveals himself as all too mortal?
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
Hammond and May proved the perfect sidekicks to his gigantic personality.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
Pixie gave a sign to her sidekicks it was time to leave.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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