companion
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The plaintiffs in B.P.J. and its companion case from Idaho, Little v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This is the idea behind antibiotic adjuvants, which are companion molecules that do not kill bacteria directly but instead restore the power of antibiotics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Following a check-up by a vet, Oyster was given a clean bill of health and has been transferred to a sanctuary where she will be introduced to a male companion.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Marcus is survived by sons Alan, Kenneth and Raymond; four grandchildren; one great-grandson; and his long-term colleague and companion Maria-Elizabeth Michel-Beyerle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Elisha had suggested Mrs. Walter as an appropriate companion for Maggie before he left.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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The difference between our two favorite animal companions begins in the eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Visibly exhausted, Ronnie looks at his companions who continue to remove debris.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
As one of the coldest planetary-mass companions ever directly imaged, it is so faint that scientists have struggled to analyze its light from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
When an airwoman for the 587th gave a concert for her companions, her comrades made her a white silk dress out of parachute fabric to wear while she sang.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Her uncle, Sir John Milly Doyle, then an old man of mark in the military world, was naturally proud of his beautiful charge, and companioned her that evening.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
Things hadn’t gone very well with him that day and he had waited for Jane for a little companioning.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
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 Lang, Andrew
The child seemed in her loneliness to reach out for companioning.
From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth
There no other wings may gleam But only yours, companioning my dream In its strange flight up new and radiant ways.
From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin
If all of us sincerely and practically united in trusting and companioning them,—so sincerely as to convince them of the fact—I would have small misgivings.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian
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