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companion

[kuhm-pan-yuhn] / kəmˈpæn jən /


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The batch of new legislation includes Senate Bill 1119, which would require companion chatbot operators to assess risks, notify parents in certain cases if their child threatened to harm themselves, and take other safety steps.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

“Watching Heaven Fall” opens with a twangy acoustic guitar refrain and goes on to describe a now-lost companion jumping trains and pumping gas in an attempt to outrun his past.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

"President Samia has lost a lifelong companion, her children a beloved father, and Tanzania a distinguished son," he wrote on social media.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Yet despite the star-studded cast—and Kelce’s stylish ensembles—it was his fluffy four-legged companion that ultimately stole the show.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Like his nearby European companions and many other hybrid figures, he is a character of contrasts—power and fear, life and death, human and animal.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The Moon helps point the way to a celestial teapot, Venus becomes exceptionally bright, the seasons officially turn, and the Harvest Moon appears with two planetary companions.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Kang said the applications of embodied AI have become more obvious, pointing to robots making noodles or acting as emotional companions.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 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

He strode to his companions, who had taken cover in the tangle of brush.

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

Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Porta Marina, through which the chief harbor is gained, is remarkable for its carved, dark-gray lion, companioned by two white cherubs of stone brilliantly full of life despite their almost terrifying obesity.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens

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

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

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

From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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

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




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