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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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Johansson starred in the 2013 Spike Jonze film “Her,” voicing Samantha, the AI companion character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"You'll start to see production with a brand-new Doctor, a brand-new companion, summer next year."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Wedged in the tiny space between irrelevancy and timeliness, Sorkin’s companion piece doesn’t need to say anything new to do its job; it only has to persuade us to pay attention to its shouts.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Even more remarkably, the transfer of material appears to be happening so slowly that the star could continue feeding on its companion for hundreds of thousands of years, potentially even billions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

“You left my companion to die! You’ve been with Achren all along. I should have known it. You’re no better than she is!”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Breaking through Holmes’ tight circle of dubious companions, Fielder pulls at every thread he can, attempting to unravel a greater truth from life’s gnarled yarn.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Cats are ideal companions for writers, whose lonely work can be alleviated by furry injections of playfulness and curiosity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Now, a new industry being dubbed the "loneliness economy" has emerged, with people hiring themselves out as companions to help the elderly.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Until now, observations of close interactions between stars and their planetary companions have largely emphasized either stable orbits or relatively rapid engulfment events.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Would Baba and his companions come down to the creek?

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

It should be companioned with a key and a glossary like the Berlitz books.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

He sat at the end of the table companioned only by his wife, the conservative journalist Barbara Amiel.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

"All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world," she says.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013

L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so in a week or less I shall start, unusually tailor-made, for South Germany and all that jolly country, companioned and maided.

From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Mrs Urquhart and Mrs Pennycuick, plain, brave, working women of the rough old times, wives of high-born husbands, incapable of companioning them as they companioned each other, had been great friends.

From Sisters by Ada Cambridge

Brunston and other Scottish lairds of Wishart’s circle were agents of the plot, and in 1545-46 our George Wishart is found companioning with them. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang

What a noble countenance! at once austere and gracious—haughty and benign—of a man conscious of his greatness while yet companioning with the humble—an unrecognised power dwelling in the woods.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

We repeated the “soft words” over and over, companioning them with “O they banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead.”

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

If all of us sincerely and practically united in trusting and companioning them,—so sincerely as to convince them of the fact—I would have small misgivings.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne


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