playmate
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During those summer months, Maya was my only playmate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
At first I wasn’t sure what the point of this was, because Cherish didn’t seem like much of a playmate.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
But their hope for endless playmates goes wrong when they get manhandled by toddlers and held hostage by Lotso, leading to a climactic escape from an incinerator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
This time, in late September, the rabbit was still there, but it had no playmates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 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
She joined them, and because she wore shorts, Poulami's playmates initially assumed that she too was a boy.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2023
In a place where, as soon as we were teenagers, we’d have to cover our heads and hide ourselves from the boys who’d been our childhood playmates, we ran as free as the wind.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
