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Noun
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After injuries to McNamara, Brendan Sullivan and Marco Lainez III, the Hawkeyes started walk-on Jackson Stratton and threw the ball a total of 29 times in their final two regular-season games, winning them both.—
Scott Dochterman,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025 -
The Horned Frogs held open tryouts and added the four walk-ons to a roster that was missing its three best players Sedona Prince, Madison Conner and Jaden Owens.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Jan. 2025
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Scenes are often crowded with supernumeraries.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
30 Mar. 2023
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One of West Hartford’s earlier patrol officers, Martin McCue, started as a part-time supernumerary in 1929 and became a full-time officer a year later.—
Don Stacom,
courant.com,
12 Nov. 2020
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Netflix has officially announced that Whitford will join his former West Wing costar Janney in the third season of The Diplomat.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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The shoot itself is meticulously reconstructed—featuring a remarkable turn by Matt Dillon as Schneider’s significantly more famous costar and scene partner, Marlon Brando—in order to contextualize the private and public fallout from Schneider’s equally iconic and traumatizing breakout performance.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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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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In 2023, the Razzies apologized after facing backlash for nominating a 12-year-old, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, for worst actress.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Spear-carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spear-carrier. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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