supporting player
Example Sentences
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It’s stepped in as a supporting player in main-course recipes, too, featuring duck, chicken, pork or venison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Only in this telling, Carmen, played by Wally Baram, isn’t just a supporting player in Benny’s path toward self-acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
A supporting player through the show’s first two seasons, Penelope is the main character of Season 3, which begins streaming May 16 on Netflix.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
When you grow through the industry, it's really exciting because you're like, "Oh, I'm going from a supporting player to someone they're putting all this faith in."
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2023
They were stacked with talent—big, tough players, like Jason Zundel and Dallas Miller, and they had in Reggie a tenacious defender and supporting player.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
