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The word "playmates" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to friends or companions with whom one plays, often in a childhood context.
Example: "The children invited their playmates over for a fun afternoon in the backyard."
Alternatives: "Play friends" or "Play companions."
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With Andy about to set off for college and leave his old playmates behind, will Woody, Buzz and the gang ever see him again?
The 18th-century, ivy-clad farmhouse is split into five apartments so your children are likely to find playmates but the pool will never get too busy.
Her unofficial role in the operation concerned mainly marketing, including designing the skimpy outfits of the promotional "Patrón Girls", who were recruited first from Las Vegas escort agencies and later from Playboy's Playmates.
After all, when he is not partying with Playmates, Mr Musk likes to entertain in style at his pricey Bel Air home and speed around Los Angeles in his million-dollar McLaren racer.But Mr Musk has no sense of occasion.
But for that to happen everything would have to go right for their candidates, and most signs suggest everything won't.Turnout is expected to be low, which helps to explain the narrow, repetitive nature of the campaign pitches: Republicans attack Democrats as Barack Obama's playmates; Democrats warn darkly about Republican extremists in the pockets of billionaires.
As a Downing Street insider observed: "He's a bit short of playmates at these things".Most of all, Mr Blair worries about what he describes as a coming together of the left and the far right in Europe, united in loathing both America and globalisation.
The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus (known also as the Arabic Infancy Gospel), for example, recounts that, one day, Jesus and his playmates were playing on a rooftop and one fell down and died.
They also come to prefer the activities and roles traditionally assigned to their own sex; as early as two years of age, most children select toys and activities that fit the sex-role stereotypes of their culture, and during the preschool years they begin to select same-sex playmates.
The third-grader's playmates include a rabbit, a bear, a raccoon, and a pair of monkeys.
Known to his childhood playmates as Djago (Cock, Champion) for his looks, spirits, and prowess, he was as an adult best known as Bung Karno (bung, "brother" or "comrade"), the revolutionary hero and architect of merdeka ("independence").
Both Shaw's father and mother were early ardent abolitionists (Shaw's playmates included William Lloyd Garrison's children).
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