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buddy

[buhd-ee] / ˈbʌd i /


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Watch an Oscar-worthy performance: The filmmaker behind The Banshees of Inisherin is back with another pitch-black buddy comedy.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

And for those who didn’t go alone, finding a buddy was half the fun.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

"You're floating around in the air, and you give a little tap with your foot, and you can sail over to say hello to your buddy."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Was Mr Belding your dimples karaoke birthday buddy?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Albie,” Mr. Clifton said when he was introducing her to the class, “would you like to be Darissa’s buddy this week?”

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Hurd had been tennis buddies with Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who publicly criticized HP’s decision as “the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

It’s hard not to walk out of “Nimrods” with a little spark of desire to start a punk band and hit the road with your buddies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

“We hit it off, and we’ve been great buddies since,” Lombardi said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

While his daughter and her friend were “bopping away” to every song, Grant said, he buddied up with Swift’s boyfriend, NFL tight end Travis Kelce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Almost certainly that’s why, during the German occupation of France, he buddied up, for protection, with the Nazi-connected Cocteau.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

A 12-year-old girl who has just recovered from leukaemia has been buddied with a West End star through Momentum Children's Charity.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2022

By then he had buddied up with Chilean Yonathan Jesús Fernández and Mexican Germán Madrozo, whose prospects were as farcically bad as his were.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019

He greeted Smith whenever he got off the team bus; he walked on the beach with him; he buddied up to other players.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2017

That’s what makes the negotiations so comical, and Moore looks like a fool for buddying up to John Angelos.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

The attorneys were buddying up to the client, like “I could do this for you, I’m going to do that for you, you can call me 24/7, I’m always available, I have your back.”

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2019

Now we have NK and China buddying up,especially at a crucial time following the trade issues.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2018

On another wall: a picture of Dixie Fuller, former stage manager for the band Alabama, buddying up with ZZ Top.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2017

Vonetta, who was buddying up to one of the three sisters, could get her own toast.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia


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