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In California, everyone seems to have a friend who is into tarot and astrology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

There is an antibiotic available that is known to curb symptoms, which Clare heard has helped a friend.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Her body was found at the home after the actor called a friend to check in on his daughter, having grown concerned over not hearing from her.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

I’m skeptical but I called my clairvoyant friend to see if there was a reason for this sudden male attention and whether I should consider getting delivery from now on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

But he was the oldest of Clare’s fungi, and also, incidentally, the closest thing he had to a friend.

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

Jimmy Chung, 34, and two friends were taking a break from playing slots to try the buffet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The upshot was that instead of a more community-minded gathering of citizens casting ballots for friends and neighbors, delegates were simply voted into the state convention based on whom they would support for the Senate.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

On July 4, the tax-deferred investment accounts opened up for contributions from friends and family.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Over the next two years they became firm friends, texting and phoning each other when they were not at work.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Joey’s friends tell her it is disgraceful to accept the invitation.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

About four years ago, I casually friended a man on social media.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 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

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

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

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 Greville, Charles