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"She was lovely - just like a friend you'd known all of your life," said Angela Powell who was among the first to arrive outside the singer's home.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Victor Granado, a longtime friend of Flávio, is among those hoping the candidate’s more conciliatory nature and softer rhetoric than his father’s will help broaden his appeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The four-time major winner outscored his playing partner and close friend Sam Burns by seven shots as he signed for a four-under 66 to get back on the winning trail.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Rodriguez and another friend who was in the car suffered minor injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

I’m bewildered by how this foe seems a little bit friend as well.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Before Dominique married Elle’s father, the two were the best of friends.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Monroe had a 1958 edition of the collection and read it before she and Parker became neighbors and friends in West Hollywood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

"From a very young age, I lost the chance to have a normal childhood, friends, relationships, and my privacy," Panettiere wrote in her revealing autobiography, This Is Me, which was published earlier this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“We have friends in New York and we know it’s difficult to date in those places,” Zoppi said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

After the sermon, friends and more distant family started home.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Just before Christmas 2022, someone purporting to be a San Diego woman named Viktoria Zara friended Kevin on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

“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

“Facebook was new and sparkly and you friended everyone,” said Ms. Schloss, who graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan.

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

“I’ve seen it. You friended me. And JP’s got one too.”

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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