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A rabble-rousing, union-advocating teacher friend of mine came out of the same public schools as me, and she now teaches at a private school, primarily to pay for the discounted tuition her daughter receives.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

But he denied making threats and said he had been "talking frankly in a private way with Danny who I thought was my friend".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Your friend brings a lot of value to the business, as the managing director and founder — and the person who oversees the client list and the network of dog-sitters.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

That summer, Léa De Carmo, an aspiring actress, was driving back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas with a friend and, after a night of partying, craved a cup of coffee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The children forgot Clare and ran, sprinting along the river, screaming and tripping and trying to save their small friend.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The friends will be at odds, and then they won’t, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Then we became friends with a couple who have an entirely different definition of “comfortable.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

I traveled to Peru with my family and some close friends to learn more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Is it possible to stay close with friends who are substantially wealthier without eventually feeling like the poor relations?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

But my rez friends were the kids I went to school with and maybe a few of their cousins who liked Star Wars or comics.

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

Riley testified he was a passionate fisherman and friended Hiles on Facebook in early January 2021 because Hiles had a large following and posted fishing videos on YouTube.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 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

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