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What started as a little friendly rivalry soon turned into a nationwide search for record-breaking crayfish.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hackney RFC's players rocked up on Wednesday for a 30-minute friendly, only to find former NFL star Jason Kelce playing for local rivals Old Streetonians.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Shortly afterward, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, with whom he had become friendly, hired Brown as one of the startup’s first 20 employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
His team also pocketed a hefty sum -- several million dollars -- for travelling to Luanda in November 2025 for a friendly marking Angola's 50th Independence Day celebrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
When another prisoner dies, he switches places with the dead body and is buried at sea, after which he swims to freedom and is rescued by friendly smugglers.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
"African football associations accept these deals because everything is taken care of. It saves them having to find opponents and organise friendlies," explained an expert on African football who asked not to be named.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whilst there is no standard practice for organising international professional friendlies, smaller African teams generally rely on agencies to manage their away fixtures and don't necessarily make any profit from the games.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The lengthy 16-day session will feature friendlies against Peru and Chile in September and against Mexico and Canada during the first week of October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Reds have won two and lost two of their four friendlies so far - beating Sunderland and Wrexham, but throwing away two-goal leads in defeats by Leeds and Monaco.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“There are no friendlies ahead of us,” the platoon leader reported.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
“That doesn’t make a home within reach for everyone, but, for people who can afford to buy now, it’s a much friendlier market than it was a few years ago.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Turkey is another large trading partner of Iran, according to ITC data, but it has a much friendlier relationship with the US than China.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
But in the closed-door meeting of national leaders that followed, a friendlier Trump emerged, according to people in the room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Under different, friendlier circumstances Penelope might have offered to have the coat mended, but these circumstances were not those.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
The friendliest U.S. cities, according to World Cup tourists.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
"I'm telling you it's a shame what everyone thinks about them and everything, man, because they are one of the friendliest dogs that I know."
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
In the end, Elmer the patchwork elephant seemed the friendliest, least controversial decision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Your executive producer on "Watson" said that it would be fun to cast the friendliest man in the world in this role.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
He has dreadlocks and one of the friendliest faces I’ve ever seen.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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