as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
movie heroes invariably have a trusty sidekick, who often provides comic relief
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Recent Examples of sidekick
Callie and her best friend Grace have formed SPUD, the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives, and Bo, who has a literal birds eye view of their town, is the perfect sidekick.
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Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 26 Dec. 2025
After completing his time-travel mission, Steve Rogers returned to the main MCU timeline as an elderly man and passed the shield to his former sidekick, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), who went on to become the new Captain America.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
In the taxonomy of political sidekicks, Navarro, who advises on trade, isn’t a carrier of darkly destructive principles, like Miller.
—Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
My dad and his radio sidekick, Gary Sullivan, who hosted the hardware show combined their shows for this special program.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2025
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Daily calls with Sundar Pichai In 2023, Google made a key change to combine its Google Brain research division with DeepMind, a move that laid the foundation for its success with the company's flagship AI assistant Gemini.—
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Aside from Wells’ appointment, the club’s coaching and technical staff remained mostly intact, aside from two outgoing and two incoming assistant coaches.—
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On the other hand, Aesha and Nathan have taken on new roles as head teacher and aide in the third-grade classroom, composed of Kizzi and Joe, who cannot stop touching each other, giggling, and speaking over the teacher, and Max, who cannot go a whole day without throwing a temper tantrum.—
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Cook paid into the retirement system while working as an aide to Healey for the past three years and as a UMass Hotel manager since 2016, state Comptroller records show.—
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Fire department personell who responded to the scene rendered aid to the man and transported him to a nearby hospital, but he was later pronounced dead.—
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Scarce aid can be maximized by investing in approaches that reach more people at less cost.—
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Yorath enjoyed a glittering playing career after joining Leeds as a teenage apprentice, appearing 198 times for the club and playing in the European Cup, FA Cup, and European Cup Winners’ Cup finals.—
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And many of those apprentices — in skilled trades, electricians, laborers, carpenters — are already at work strengthening and building the physical foundations of our state.—
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Bashor is an assistant professor of bioengineering and biosciences at Rice and deputy director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute.—
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In the late spring, a University of Utah college student was arrested after a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy tipped off ICE officers to her location and immigration status.—
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.—
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“Sidekick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sidekick. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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