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I found out about the treasure of the village known as El Paraiso en Maneadero several weeks ago from a pickleball pal named Tom Wiley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
One highlight years ago was a viral YouTube clip of Gates and his billionaire pal Warren Buffett picking up a shift at Dairy Queen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Perhaps the biggest winner will be Musk’s old pal, Antonio Gracias, who runs Valor Equity Partners out of Chicago.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
It was a dream come true for Max, who has since become Britain's youngest zookeeper at Chessington Zoo, and acquired an Australian pen pal who loves Max's passion.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
“No you aren’t, pal, you’re going to study.”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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The wedding itself will reportedly take place Friday with around 1,000 guests, including models Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne, singer Selena Gomez and actress Zoe Kravitz -- all known to be close Swift pals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
And always going out to eat and drink with your closest pals — my favorite fantasy of them all.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Rambunctious children become expressionless, silent gawpers while under the spell of the tablets, against which Woody and pals are largely helpless to compete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He’s pals with James, the Lakers star who’s “been a positive force in my life,” Garrett said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Jesse valued friends and he was a good one, not only to Eric, but to his pals back in Idaho, whose relationships and work lives were faltering one by one.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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In the early 1960s, when Robert Duvall was struggling to make it in New York City, he palled around with a couple of fellow actors also trying to find their way in the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Billionaires Bill Gates and Peter Thiel palled around with Epstein long after his conviction, as did Kathryn Ruemmler, one of the top lawyers in the Obama administration, who is now General Counsel at Goldman Sachs.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
He cracked corny jokes, flubbed lines to prepared speeches and kept important business people waiting while he palled around with schoolchildren.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
It wasn’t malicious, just good old-fashioned razzing; Randolph palled around with James at the close of media day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
The long hot idle summer days palled on me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Altadenans are no strangers to animal sightings — there are peacocks and parrots aplenty around town — but news of a coyote and black bear palling around town together recently has locals talking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025
Plus, Musk might be a bit busy to be palling around with the powerful in snowy Switzerland.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
But what good is palling around with people in a sprawling, interconnected virtual space if you can’t feel the “world” around you?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2022
He’s one of the oldest — we didn’t compete against each other in high school — lived farther away than most of the crew and was less present during the peak of our palling around.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Once, in the middle of a dense stand of oak, they came face-to-face with three men palling a load of firewood in an ax cart, with no way for either to get around.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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