playmate
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And speaking of powerful unelected people, the name Elon Musk comes to mind, and Trump’s Oval Office playmate has his own beef with the Coastal Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025
The clip highlighted an obvious imbalance between a male figure – disingenuously portrayed as a fellow playmate – in a position of power to a teenage girl.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2024
But in the meantime, mother chimps continue to be their offspring's primary playmate, tickling, chasing, playing 'airplane'.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
“This is devastating,” said Sharon Williams, another neighbor who had called child welfare and has been answering her granddaughter’s haunting questions since her playmate died: “She asked, ‘Did Zoey go to heaven?’
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
Safina was my playmate from the time I was about eight.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
The childhoods so many Americans grew up with—holidays packed with relatives, built-in playmates, bustling Friday night dinners—are quietly disappearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
This time, in late September, the rabbit was still there, but it had no playmates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
A brown bear who underwent pioneering, life-saving brain surgery in October has rejoined his playmates after more than a year apart.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
"But when they're doing that, they are also limiting the ability of their young ones to play with others, and the moms become the primary playmates," said Sabbi.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
“Good,” said the boy, for he had no wish to tell the secret to his playmates, liking to know and do what they knew not and could not.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
