understudy

Example Sentences

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The understudy, as Powers calls her, was not as excited by the whole thing.

From Seattle Times

The thrill of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” a revival of the 1978 musical is, aptly, its dancers: 16 cast members and six understudies.

From New York Times

Together we honed in on wildfires in Alaska and thought about the mental health impacts because it overlapped with our areas of expertise and was a super understudied area.

From Salon

In are Andre James, an understudy the past two seasons with the Raiders, and rookie Alex Leatherwood, the No. 17 overall pick in April.

From Seattle Times

But you’ve also written that analogy is “an understudied area in AI.”

From Scientific American