friend
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Horton considered the Lakers announcing legend a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
If the dependable friend offers you 5% to borrow your money, you might demand 8% from the unreliable friend because there’s a greater chance something goes wrong.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“I knew Chuck was working on a novel,” said his old friend Arthur Livingston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
But Pratik Gandhi told AFP his longtime friend had appeared notably composed since childhood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
You can’t always tell a friend or enemy until it’s too late.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“Instead of showing up, checking a box to work out, then eject, I think that sacrifice from friends, family, it’s important,” manager Dave Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It said Davidson, who was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his work in raising awareness of Tourette's, had suggested watching from a separate room in the venue with his family and friends.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Outside, family, friends and others mobilized for his release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
She took some classes, traveled with friends and eventually began volunteering.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
When friends bring her clothes, she gives those away too.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Just before Christmas 2022, someone purporting to be a San Diego woman named Viktoria Zara friended Kevin on Facebook.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
“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
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
“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
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