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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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That is especially true, added Parks, if Apple’s hub and its companion LG devices just work easily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

A trip to Paris to work for a family who needs a companion for their child leads to pianoforte lessons, but with no prospect of a public life as a musician.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Wedged in the tiny space between irrelevancy and timeliness, Sorkin’s companion piece doesn’t need to say anything new to do its job.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The simulations incorporated the measured properties of the star and its companion, along with the physical equations governing orbital motion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

He drew his lips back, imitating a smile, and turned triumphantly to his companion.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

In China, AI companies have already had success using cuddly companions to attract users to their products.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

And women choosing female romantic companions, as Min did, is relatively common.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The passenger’s family and companions were notified, the announcement said, and local authorities were going to continue the search.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The second pillar is about ensuring social media, video sharing apps, online video games, AI companions and chatbots are safe before children use them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Armed with iron bars and sledges, the companions hurried back to the cottage and, while the enchantresses looked on curiously, Taran raised his hammer.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

So long as roads were passable, and skies at all propitious, Mrs. Edwards was certain to ride to Caerphilly market, companioned by Rhys, less for protection than for his instruction.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

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

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

From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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

The child seemed in her loneliness to reach out for companioning.

From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

Things hadn’t gone very well with him that day and he had waited for Jane for a little companioning.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie




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