walk-on
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How it happened is a tale of speculation, the oil panic and the rotating winners from artificial intelligence, with a walk-on part for the weird way indexes work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
But she failed to hear her husband Mark's voice on a phone call with Kathy, or see her son's walk-on cameo at the Queen Vic.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
The former Crespi High star initially wanted to play for Michigan State, but he couldn’t make the team, even as a walk-on, so he tried to become a student manager, and failed at that, too.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various