sidekick
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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
Opening for Sykes was her former sidekick on “The Wanda Sykes Show,” Keith Robinson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
She knew it wouldn’t be another puzzle-loving computer nut with a cowlick sidekick.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
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
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
Pixie gave a sign to her sidekicks it was time to leave.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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