sidekick
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In the coming season, Carson also revealed that she will hit the dance floor with comedian Guillermo Rodriguez, the Mexican talk show personality best known as a sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Who, then, was the sidekick in that relationship?
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 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
And for a time he becomes the sidekick of an out-of-work guerrilla in the Central African Republic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“That’s right,” said his sidekick, renowned librarian Helen Burnham.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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
“Superman” is intended to lead off for several upcoming DC movies, including “Supergirl,” starring Milly Alcock, “Clayface,” and “Dynamic Duo” about the Robins — Batman sidekicks Dick Grayson and Jason Todd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The Rest Is Football sees Lineker discuss football's biggest stories in a light-hearted manner with his Match of the Day sidekicks Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.
From BBC ● May 21, 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
Her mother clapped and the sidekicks danced into the room.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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