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In a statement to The Times, a family friend shared the news of the star’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Tom Parnaby was 18 when he and a friend were badly injured in the accident on 5 November 2025.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Smith and his friend David Hume, the great irreligious Edinburgh philosopher, were among the leading lights in the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

I’d also make sure there was a corporate trustee or a truly trusted friend involved, because I wouldn’t trust my daughter to manage a large inheritance herself.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Father’s grateful that Caesar is my friend, too.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

These videos depict a fun-loving land that welcomes foreigners and embraces friends at 250 years old despite all the advertised assaults on its social fabric.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

When he was approaching 70, friends started getting very sick and dying.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

"He misses his family... but also his friends, his country of birth," Owens explained.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Outside of therapy, she asked friends, ChatGPT and a Reddit community for advice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

I made friends, held hands in a circle, mumbled along to “Kumbaya,” and now here I am in the cramped aisle of a commercial jet, traveling by myself like a fancy, mature young woman.

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

The musician, who did not know Counterman, never responded and blocked Counterman, but he friended Whalen under other names to continue the messages.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

“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

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

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

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