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“Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us,” they said in a statement published on her Instagram account.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

An older friend, meanwhile, may have been through a problem you’re facing, and can offer concrete advice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

"When Shirley was born, as I had a friend in America I just thought we'll have Shirley," Kathleen said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Then, at a little film school gathering at my friend’s house somewhere in Boyle Heights, I saw a friend from graduate school from across the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

You can’t always tell a friend or enemy until it’s too late.

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

To attract patrons, the Los Angeles County Library turned to some of the most familiar faces on earth: Hello Kitty and her friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

To honor 40 years of service, we took our painter Fred, his wife and other friends and family for lunch at Windows in 1989.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In a video posted on Friday, O'Leary said that, over the last ten days, he had had "conversations with family and friends, both inside and outside Ryanair".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is no secret to my forbearing friends who slouched in theater seats next to me during, say, every Paul W. S. Anderson-directed disaster in the “Resident Evil” series.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

His friends the priest, the barber, and Samson came to see him many times daily.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Just before Christmas 2022, someone purporting to be a San Diego woman named Viktoria Zara friended Kevin on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

“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

Recently my friend's father "friended" me on Facebook.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2021

“Facebook was new and sparkly and you friended everyone,” said Ms. Schloss, who graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

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

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