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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

"Some people might think that if you can't afford to feed it, then don't have it, but if it's your only companion you have, they can keep people going," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

A plot twist in the series premiere centers on Olivia discovering her former boss trained “Daisy,” an unauthorized AI companion chatbot created by S-Talk, by using her voice and personality without her knowledge or consent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

That is especially true, added Parks, if Apple’s hub and its companion LG devices just work easily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.’

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

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

Brussels last month also proposed forcing companies to make AI companions and chatbots safe before children use them.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In little more than a day, the companions had been scattered like leaves, and there remained only this pitifully small band, itself lost and driven.

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

A creature like Toad is not a tree, but is designed to move across earth's surface, perpendicular to gravity and companioned by time.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the past half hour or more she had been strangely companioned.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

She chattered away, these last few precious moments, as merrily as if Timothy were companioning the adventure of this trip to Lewisburg, but he found no tongue to reply.

From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox

There no other wings may gleam But only yours, companioning my dream In its strange flight up new and radiant ways.

From Eight Harvard Poets by E. Estlin Cummings

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

He grew still and fell to thinking of his mother, and how her cheek would redden with something she called sorrow at his shameless companioning with the wearer of a blue uniform.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

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


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