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Fred, his sister and a friend travelled east in a Polish Army Hospital van, to his grandparents' home, avoiding Nazi gunfire on the roads.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Next was my friend Ezra Dyer, a columnist with Car and Driver, who donated the use of his beach house, his 21-foot power boat and his weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I have no children, and I’ve always planned for whatever I leave to go to my brother, a dear friend and a couple of charities I care about.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

It's a deliberately maximalist record, recalling the lush orchestrations of ELO and The Carpenters, with a nod to the revivalist pop of Ashe's friend Laufey.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Surely you understand. Your actress friend missed the show.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Prosecutors said he repeatedly lied to her children, family, friends and neighbours, claiming she was in hospital recovering from an illness and that only he was able to visit her.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Far from fulfilling a Heated Rivalry fantasy with male friends who “had her back,” she entered a dystopia of manosphere misogyny.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Inside we see Mike Ditka sitting at a table with friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The team sends its heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and Eastside community for the loss of Brian Seibert,” wrote the Mono County search team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He does his best James Brown imitation, and his friends laugh.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“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

Recently my friend's father "friended" me on Facebook.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 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

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

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