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friend

[frend] / frɛnd /


VERB
add as a friend on social media
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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

Washington Navy Yard, 2012: I got invited to college friend Rear Adm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

"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

The impact threw his girlfriend, Serenity Rizkalla, and a friend, Michael Estrella, from the car.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

There were photos, notes, library books, your best friend Shana’s borrowed sweater, that one beaded earring.

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

"You feel exhausted, it's mostly mental fatigue," he said while standing next to a group of friends wearing orange vests and helmets.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Lord Woolley told the BBC's Broadcasting House programme on Sunday he and a number of close friends had met Arday on Monday, four days before he was found dead at a south London address.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Meals can be a time to socialize and deepen bonds with family and friends.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

“Prayers to all of our friends in Hawaii & crews flying to/from the islands!” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Old friends and family will know the truth.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The musician, who did not know Counterman, never responded and blocked Counterman, but he friended Whalen under other names to continue the messages.

From Washington Post Jan. 13, 2023

“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

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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