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But after a friend asked her to make a phone case, word got out and orders began flying in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Afterward, Oppenheim told Fielder he had heard through a friend of a friend that Holmes was looking for someone to document her life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The friend group all get into the tiny car but Simon struggles to start the engine.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Maybe they can teach me to fix my cheap toaster, so I don’t have to buy another cheap toaster,” she told her friend.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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

A schoolboy named Waldham slipped off the cliffs after a scrum with friends and broke his arm in 1881.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Ashley Carle, 21, a first year psychology student at the University of Liverpool, said she arrived at The Boat House, where several of her friends work, shortly after Dizzee left.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

His charisma makes him friends everywhere he goes, she said, so she wasn’t surprised to hear he’d started to form bonds with fellow detainees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"George famously used to get quite stressed out because he was the first superstar footballer and there was a lot of so-called friends that weren't really friends," he explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

She had friends that lived near the swamps, and she’d have them show us around.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“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

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

“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

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

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

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