companion
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Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
An artist's impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion behind, with the diameters shown to scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
During one ocean swim at Isabela Island, my travel companion Ofek emerged from the water to find a few tropical penguins floating beside him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A California senator introduced companion legislation that would also prohibit contracts about “an individual’s death.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
As the pale fingers of dawn crept across the sky Matthias was beginning to doubt that his companion knew the way.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Most nearby red dwarfs have not yet been systematically examined for concealed white dwarf companions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
But these digital companions have allowed Petherbridge to cut back on how often she does in-person therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Visibly exhausted, Ronnie looks at his companions who continue to remove debris.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Grindr has expanded beyond casual dating, allowing people to find friends, travel companions and others in the LGBTQ+ community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
Ella was used to all different sorts of conjure companions, like roosters and dogs and lizards, but snakes always terrified her a little at first.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Pelée; rode on creole ponies for days through scented chromatic forests with serrated heights frowning above them, and companioned by birds as vivid as the flowers and as silent.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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 Lenker, John Nicholas
It was made up of four deep, parallel ruts, the two outermost eroded by years of journeying cart-wheels, the inner ones worn by the companioning hoofs of many a yoke of oxen.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Almost too busy to write, my dears, what with cooking and catering and maiding and companioning.
From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort
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 Cummings, E. Estlin
My own toy fawn pugs loved their comforts too much to be perfect dogs for companioning a person of active outdoor habits, but they were sweet-tempered, gentle things, and, as such, to be commended.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
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