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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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A companion study describing their experimental realization through quantum simulation is undergoing peer review.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

A trip to Paris to work for a family who needs a companion for their child leads to pianoforte lessons, but with no prospect of a public life as a musician.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

He made it with ease to the fence, glancing back to check on his companion.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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, Ms. Fullerton explains, are ideal companions for men and women of letters, whose “lonely occupation” may 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

Scientists have observed many planetary systems with stable orbits, along with a small number of stars caught rapidly swallowing their planetary companions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Orddu raised a sputtering candle above her head and peered at the companions.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of them, companioned by the faithful phlox and sunflower, once grew in dooryards now desolate.

From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm

Things hadn’t gone very well with him that day and he had waited for Jane for a little companioning.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

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

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

Almost too busy to write, my dears, what with cooking and catering and maiding and companioning.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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


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