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bosom buddy

[booz-uhm buhd-ee] / ˈbʊz əm ˈbʌd i /










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Charles Lummis, a Harvard dropout and bosom buddy of Teddy Roosevelt’s, had caught malaria in Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022

He also warned Democrats that his bosom buddy could win reelection in a 40-state landslide.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019

“Divines” is, rather, a tale of young adulthood, centered on the relationship between the film’s two teen-age leads, Dounia and her bosom buddy Maimouna.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2017

Edward House, Wilson’s bosom buddy and seeming comrade-in-arms, portrayed by Harry Groener as a strong-willed, somewhat condescending ally.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

Raw and emotional, disinclined toward introspection, he had the kind of gregarious, magnetic personality that instantly won him friends for life; hundreds of individuals—including some he’d met just once or twice—considered him a bosom buddy.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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