friend
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When preorders began arriving in October, a friend texted me a photo of the book.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
The progeny of a Honeycrisp and an unknown lover, it was the very variety that my appleholic friend had raved about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
On the day of her collapse, Kay had been due to go out for a roast dinner with a friend.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Lutnick, a billionaire investor, is a close friend of Trump, who has made Huang one of his closest advisers on artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Maggie had met E when she really needed a friend.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
He hasn't had a family since he was taken, or indeed any gorilla friends.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
And besides, my Instagram and Facebook accounts are private and limited only to close friends and family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The Merry Little Breezes whisk about the countryside interacting with animal friends, each with their own distinctive personalities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Like, if I’ve got work or want to see my friends in London, I’ll go there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
You might see cousins of friends at Picnic or regional powwows.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
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
Imagine people friending you six months before an election and they're talking to you.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
“We often have free stuff,” Lu said in Mandarin to two men who crossed the border in January, after friending them on WeChat at the vegetable giveaway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
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
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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