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But Pratik Gandhi told AFP his longtime friend had appeared notably composed since childhood.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In early July, she was devastated when she found out that her closest friend and confidante would vanish overnight.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He explained that a friend who has also been diagnosed with the disease has been sharing her journey and that has “helped ... so much.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

But for many people, a cold call from a friend or family member has become synonymous with an emergency.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Duke said to Sancho, "Sancho, my friend, I, in the name of the great Don Quixote, appoint you governor of one of my islands."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Gustavo, can you introduce me to your friends?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

She took some classes, traveled with friends and eventually began volunteering.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

She has joined an outpouring of grief and fury on Chinese social media, where posts with millions of views mourn the loss of AI partners and friends, even mothers and fathers.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He relied on care packages sent by family and friends, exercised, meditated and kept journals that he later used to write his book.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

She writes to friends and asks if someone can send her a guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo—any instrument will do.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Riley testified he was a passionate fisherman and friended Hiles on Facebook in early January 2021 because Hiles had a large following and posted fishing videos on YouTube.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

“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

Ford Fischer, an independent journalist and prolific Wohl watcher whose video was linked in the above Instagram post, told me that Garcia-Andrews had friended him last October on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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

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

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