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Recent Examples of player No other Heat player has more than 10 assists to Ware. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025 Five other California players also have won $1 million or more on scratchers since the start of 2025, lottery officials said. Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025 The last time the two players met at a grand slam was the semifinals of the 2023 US Open. George Ramsay, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025 New findings from the crypto-tracing firm Elliptic show how one of the biggest players in that sphere, Huione Guarantee, has likely enabled $24 billion in gray market transactions—with the volume of activity on the platform rocketing up 51 percent since initial investigations last summer. Matt Burgess, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for player 
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Noun
  • Fuller is an award-winning instrumentalist whose many accolades include having earned the title of best alto saxophonist in the 2018 JazzTimes Jazz Critics Poll.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Hotshot guitarist Grace Bowers — a prodigy who turned 18 less than two months ago — won instrumentalist of the year.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Among the newest entries, Bero, a line of non-alcoholic beers co-founded by actor Tom Holland.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The role of Dario was later recast in 2016–2017 and portrayed by actor Jordi Vilasuso.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These NPCs are not just passive participants in a storyline but dynamic digital entities with: • Their own on-chain wallets.
    Michele Zanello, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
  • There was a notable change in inflammation, as well: Blood markers for whole-body inflammation decreased among the participants.
    Lauryn Higgins, Health, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Read: Bob Dylan’s carnival act For anyone who was questioning Chalamet’s commitment to playing Dylan—including potential Oscar voters—the night was proof that the actor’s engagement with the musician went beyond the pure confines of the cinematic role.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Jackman, for the record, also has learned the names of, and provided employment to, the veteran pair of Radio City Music Hall house organists, the musicians in his more-than-amply sized orchestra, his backup singers, his clutch of dancers.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, for some artists, their material of choice is snow.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Members of the Community Brigade, a cowboy collective of friends, neighbors, artists, and parents from the Malibu area.
    Emma Marie Jenkinson, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • While taking on the spicy-wing challenge alongside Issa Rae, the Nope actress grilled her One of Them Days costar about her past romance with Drizzy.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Elphaba was always the meatier part — in the faceoff for best actress in a musical at the 2004 Tonys, original Elphaba Idina Menzel prevailed over Kristin Chenoweth’s Glinda — and the character’s arc carries even more weight in this adaptation.
    Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Player.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/player. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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