playmate

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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

Moakler, a former Playboy playmate and Miss USA, said she’s praying for a speedy recovery for her ex and for the comfort of their children “as I know they are very concerned and worried.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2022

He went from being Thomas Jefferson’s childhood playmate to becoming his personal servant—which meant, in Jefferson’s words, to “shave, dress and follow me on horseback.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis