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friend

[frend] / frɛnd /


VERB
add as a friend on social media
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The progeny of a Honeycrisp and an unknown lover, it was the very variety that my appleholic friend had raved about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

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

Did he think I’d asked her to come—left my post and rushed to ring up my movie-star friend so she could watch me march around in bathing suits?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Panorama has seen some of Arter's messages and spoken to Rebekah's friends and family who were contacted by him shortly after her death.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

Arter recorded a video of the room and sent it to family and friends in the UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

Two of his friends died in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

You have two personality traits: no friends here, no trapeze.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

In Slatten’s case, Singh had been catfishing her via a fake Facebook profile, friending her in 2013, but he ultimately came clean about his identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Imagine people friending you six months before an election and they're talking to you.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

For months, many of them have been posting comments and photos, friending each other and following fake Trump accounts.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 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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