friend
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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
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
Bill Perkins, the founder of Skylar Capital Management, was fired by his friend, the former energy trader John Arnold, for his wild trading style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The impact threw his girlfriend, Serenity Rizkalla, and a friend, Michael Estrella, from the car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Mom, this is my friend, Lala. Can you give her a ride?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
On a night out with work friends, one said to him "don't take this the wrong way, Barry, but you've become a massive unit".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"This loss of life is colossal and the effect those losses will have on their friends and families is incalculable," Ms Ní Raghallaigh added.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We track what's happening and where, because our relatives, friends and colleagues are all over Kyiv and the region, so at least we understand what is happening and where," Reshetnyk said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Meals can be a time to socialize and deepen bonds with family and friends.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Joey and her female friends also have to deal with unwanted advances from men, especially because Joey’s house is near a Japanese military barracks.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
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
The News Feed, which dropped the “News” from its name earlier this year, pioneered a social feed that learns from explicit cues you give it, such as friending someone or following a page.
From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2022
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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