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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

"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

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

Rodriguez and another friend who was in the car suffered minor injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Samson had planned the scheme, thinking that he could easily defeat his friend and make him go back home.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

McCabe has cerebral palsy and completed exams in seven subjects over the course of five months using eye-gaze technology - an achievement celebrated by his friends and teachers at school.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Monroe had a 1958 edition of the collection and read it before she and Parker became neighbors and friends in West Hollywood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Blake Waller, who co-founded the event in 2023 as a way for his friends to gather without alcohol, said they decided to expand as requests came in from people in other cities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Billy celebrated his birthday at home with friends and family.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

In the quiet void that Mystery Auntie left, I remembered that Sela and I weren’t actually friends.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

The musician, who did not know Counterman, never responded and blocked Counterman, but he friended Whalen under other names to continue the messages.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

“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

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

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