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He launched his fund with a nearly five-hour appearance on a hit podcast hosted by his friend Dwarkesh Patel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

He worked alongside Burns, his college friend, and they lived together near the company’s offices in San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Everyone has fun playing baseball,” Freeman said, “but to experience the big leagues with your best friend, I don’t know if you can get much better than that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

With Pratikshya again translating, I speak to Indumati's close friend Devisara Rana, whose husband and son are no longer with us.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The new scientific map of the brain has no relation to our old friend the Phrenological Head.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

In Tbilisi, Ms. Goldberg and her friends bonded with an 11-year-old boy named Avi who, through complicated means, was already carrying on a correspondence with a Jewish boy in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Wiltshire-based food influencer Baljinder Kaur Sangha-Gill, also known as The Authentic Punjabee, says her pages have moved beyond a list of recommendations and have come to represent a community of friends.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

And as the saying goes, with friends like these, who needs enemies?

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

And Dezhyna is watching many of her young friends leave once more.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

You have two personality traits: no friends here, no trapeze.

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

“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

Ford Fischer, an independent journalist and prolific Wohl watcher whose video was linked in the above Instagram post, told me that Garcia-Andrews had friended him last October on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2020

Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

In Slatten’s case, Singh had been catfishing her via a fake Facebook profile, friending her in 2013, but he ultimately came clean about his identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Imagine people friending you six months before an election and they're talking to you.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

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

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

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