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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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"The fact that we can still discover a nearby companion, more massive and brighter than the Sun, around such a well-studied star is remarkable," says Montargès.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Astronomers want another observation showing the candidate companion where its orbit predicts it should next appear.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The travelling companion managed to hail down a nearby driver, before rangers and police found Formosa later that afternoon where he was pronounced dead.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The vehicle that Pierre Michel Formosa, 68, was using with his travel companion, who was also from France, got bogged down in mud on August 17.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

Allagash died eons ago, and Edisto is survived by his uncle’s wife, Florentine Snowberger, and the rest of the Snowberger clan, including especially his favorite niece, Comfort Snowberger, who was also his picnic companion.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Most care deeply about their avian companions and believe feeding them is helpful.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

A New England frontiersman and ‘49er called “Grizzly Adams” — a name we likely know from a 1970s television show — tamed and trained a couple of young grizzlies as his companions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Cuaya and Hernández-Pérez also hope their findings will help show people to communicate more effectively with their own beloved canine companions.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

One approached insistently and said he was 14 years old and had come alone with no adults or older companions to accompany him.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Penelope’s dazzled companions insisted on walking her through the lobby.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

She lost the sense of it entirely and companioned with him as joyously as if there had never been anything to separate them.

From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill

Neither Ellaline nor Emily had suggested companioning me, and though I must say I had thought of proposing it to Ellaline, I hadn't found the courage.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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 Mrs. Leslie Williams

But not a hint of their grim companioning could he see or hear.

From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Brunston and other Scottish lairds of Wishart’s circle were agents of the plot, and in 1545-46 our George Wishart is found companioning with them. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang

What a noble countenance! at once austere and gracious—haughty and benign—of a man conscious of his greatness while yet companioning with the humble—an unrecognised power dwelling in the woods.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson




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