companion
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At the Los Angeles Zoo, patrons can bring a picture of their late companion animals to display on a community altar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Salvation arrived in the form of a traveling companion who, inexplicably, had packed a French press.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Even a much smaller companion can produce a detectable wobble in the larger object's motion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Jenna Ortega plays Klara, the B1 model of a robot companion known as Artificial Friend, or AF.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Even though Regina felt Bobby was fairly independent, she was worried that he was home alone too much, and she had been seeking someone to childsit for him, to be sort of a companion.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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It’s designed to honor the memory of cherished animal companions that have passed away, and all Zoo guests may participate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Mr. Vlasenko’s companions kept him alive for months with drone deliveries of medicine, including antibiotics, painkillers and topical antiseptic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
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
The trees thinned out behind him and the companions entered a wide, rolling meadow.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So he companioned more with the wild things, and burrowed deeper into the hill.
From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin
Almost too busy to write, my dears, what with cooking and catering and maiding and companioning.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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
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
Some take the words "which followed them" to mean that the spiritual rock accompanied the children of Israel, companioning with them—"comitante petra," not "petra consequente," Christ being spiritually present in the word and by faith.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
Mrs Urquhart and Mrs Pennycuick, plain, brave, working women of the rough old times, wives of high-born husbands, incapable of companioning them as they companioned each other, had been great friends.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
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