friend
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When preorders began arriving in October, a friend texted me a photo of the book.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
Warner has been steadfast in his defence of former batting partner and childhood friend Khawaja since his recollections were made public last week.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Six months after Elinor’s death, Frost fell in love with Kathleen “Kay” Morrison, the wife of his friend Theodore Morrison, who ran both the Harvard English Department and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Lutnick, a billionaire investor, is a close friend of Trump, who has made Huang one of his closest advisers on artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Frances Marion, this is my friend Ruby Chan.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Arter recorded a video of the room and sent it to family and friends in the UK.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
He hasn't had a family since he was taken, or indeed any gorilla friends.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
And the bad actors are often known to the victim: caretakers, friends, neighbors and, yes, even relatives and adult children.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
Every time Miller took up a different hobby, he gained additional unique friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“You got Indian friends from other places yet?” he asked, nodding.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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“Facebook would always tell me, oh, you should be friends with Steve Badger, but I never friended him because I thought he was so mad at me about our awkward breakup,” Calkins said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
Six years later, in July 2007, with camp and about two dozen mutual friends in common, she friended him on Facebook before they each headed off to college.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
A 2019 Swalwell campaign video shows the congressman and his family members on screen, and they appear to be the same people in the Facebook photos of the accounts friended to Fang.
From Fox News ● Dec. 9, 2020
Ford Fischer, an independent journalist and prolific Wohl watcher whose video was linked in the above Instagram post, told me that Garcia-Andrews had friended him last October on Facebook.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2020
“I’ve seen it. You friended me. And JP’s got one too.”
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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Imagine people friending you six months before an election and they're talking to you.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
“We often have free stuff,” Lu said in Mandarin to two men who crossed the border in January, after friending them on WeChat at the vegetable giveaway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
But even if you could somehow equalize those things, the researchers suggest that would close only about half the gap, because of friending bias — the propensity of people to mostly befriend others like them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022
Why the Cool Kids Are Playing Dungeons & Dragons Annalee Newitz traded Facebook for D&D: What drove me away from Facebook wasn’t just the fake friending.
From The Verge ● Apr. 9, 2019
But all the time I knew perfectly well that the great show of honor and "friending" was not for me alone.
From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry
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