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friend

[frend] / frɛnd /


VERB
add as a friend on social media
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The former Greater Mancherster mayor will appear on the programme alongside friend Steve Rotheram, the Labour mayor of the Liverpool City Region.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Donna Tryfman, a Democratic friend of Manouchehri, thinks she has gotten a bad rap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I’ve never necessarily heard him advise her. It’s more of a support thing,” said Tom Ceraulo, a friend of Chandrasekaran and Raman who is a former script coordinator for “30 Rock.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

For Bay Area journalist Bojana Cvijic, “The Devils” began as grainy screenshots on her Tumblr dashboard and a low-quality “yet still awe-inspiring” torrent sent over by a friend.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

The young man, the priest, and the barber had never stopped thinking of ways to make their friend go back to a normal life at home.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

She is now a sophomore engineering student and has rented a house near campus with four friends.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Before beginning his pregame shooting routine, Hachimura hugged Lakers assistant Beau Levesque, who was Hachimura’s player development coach, and Lakers guard Austin Reaves, one of his closest friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Tequilla Washington, a Dallas Cowboys fan from Columbus, Ohio, traveled here with her Steelers-supporting friends as a way to combine football with a bucket-list trip to Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

He first met a young Christy Moore in 1959, according to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, and the two school friends recognised a musical connection between them that would last for many decades.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

All through the short winter afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father’s friends.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Just before Christmas 2022, someone purporting to be a San Diego woman named Viktoria Zara friended Kevin on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

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

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

“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

I was thinking I'd gang all the way to London without coming across a man worth fighting, much less friending, but I was in the wrang of it.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough


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