sidekick

The Microsoft mogul rode into the NBA in 2014 as an energetic savior, paying a then-spectacular $2 billion for a sidekick franchise with a dumpy rep and a toxic owner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Melanie Sykes became the new overarching voice of the show, taking over from Black's trusted sidekick, "Our Graham" Skidmore.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Who, then, was the sidekick in that relationship?

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Another former winner, ‘The Testaments’ ’ Ann Dowd, is also deserving, as is ‘Pluribus’ sidekick Karolina Wydra.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

How many times had I gone there to be his sidekick and his yes-man, to tell him what he wanted to hear?

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Petrified, she recruited two charismatic friends as alternating sidekicks: daycare owner and activist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and civil rights attorney Florynce Kennedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The spy ring referred to themselves as the "minions", inspired by the yellow sidekicks of the villain Gru in the Despicable Me children's film franchise.

From BBC ● May 12, 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

As creators and consumers, educators and entertainers, whipping boys, final girls, sidekicks and suicides, queer people have, often invisibly, sometimes tragically, always forcefully shaped American culture, particularly through the prism of Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

I think were the only people here who didn’t bring our sidekicks.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli