friend
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"He's a good friend of mine," says Ferguson.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
But I was there with my friend Loren, and he pointed it out to me, and he recognized him from the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
You have one friend who always pays you back and another who’s a little unreliable.
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
We stood there with the snow coming down around us, each of us knowing, I was sure of it, that we were making a friend for life.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Set in a fictional trailer park in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Trailer Park Boys follows the adventures of three longtime friends and petty criminals.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The couple said they later made the rounds, visiting friends and family to divulge their secret nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
In seventh grade, our mothers had decided we should be friends because they were.
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
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
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
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
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