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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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The batch of new legislation includes Senate Bill 1119, which would require companion chatbot operators to assess risks, notify parents in certain cases if their child threatened to harm themselves, and take other safety steps.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Once in Oia, Davis carefully descended the steps while her companion opted to wait at the top.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Yet despite the star-studded cast—and Kelce’s stylish ensembles—it was his fluffy four-legged companion that ultimately stole the show.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

Long overlooked, Taro was the photographer partner and companion of legendary lensman Robert Capa and the first woman photojournalist to die on the battlefield.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

But, still, it was like a silent companion, just biding its time until it could speak to me, until we could speak to each other.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Most care deeply about their avian companions and believe feeding them is helpful.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

Kang said the applications of embodied AI have become more obvious, pointing to robots making noodles or acting as emotional companions.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

A New England frontiersman and ‘49er called “Grizzly Adams” — a name we likely know from a 1970s television show — tamed and trained a couple of young grizzlies as his companions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Cuaya and Hernández-Pérez also hope their findings will help show people to communicate more effectively with their own beloved canine companions.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

As he sat in front of the chessboard, often at the kitchen table, with a chess book spread open, the pieces became his companions, the book his mentor.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

It should be companioned with a key and a glossary like the Berlitz books.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2021

He sat at the end of the table companioned only by his wife, the conservative journalist Barbara Amiel.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2016

"All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world," she says.

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2013

L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so in a week or less I shall start, unusually tailor-made, for South Germany and all that jolly country, companioned and maided.

From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was made up of four deep, parallel ruts, the two outermost eroded by years of journeying cart-wheels, the inner ones worn by the companioning hoofs of many a yoke of oxen.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Brunston and other Scottish lairds of Wishart’s circle were agents of the plot, and in 1545-46 our George Wishart is found companioning with them. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang

In His personal aspect He is the "beloved Fakir," teaching and companioning each soul.

From Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore

He grew still and fell to thinking of his mother, and how her cheek would redden with something she called sorrow at his shameless companioning with the wearer of a blue uniform.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

Almost too busy to write, my dears, what with cooking and catering and maiding and companioning.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell




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