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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

Kay said doctors warned her she could have died if her friend had found her just half an hour later.

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

“Now let’s go. One of the speakers is going to talk about the switchboard operator, your friend who died.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He was also seeing many other prominent U.S.-based scholars decamp for Tsinghua, including one of his closest friends, Yau Shing-Tung, a Fields Medal winner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

Two of his friends died in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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

And that was decidedly something friends did not do.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

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

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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

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

There was very sharp work between Stanley and John Russell, who left off noble friending and took to noble lording him, to show that they were quite two.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville