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In one email exchange from 2011, she appeared to privately apologise for her public rejection of Epstein, saying: "You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

He said his friend booed people as they cut past them.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

In practice, though, the museum friends and the beach friends are forming opposing factions, and the vegetarian friend is hovering between malnourishment and total banishment.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

It does give consumers an opportunity to go, ‘OK, who was a fair-weather friend and who wasn’t?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

We stood there with the snow coming down around us, each of us knowing, I was sure of it, that we were making a friend for life.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

This has deterred some wealthy clients who work in private equity and want to invest in their own funds or in those run by friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Many order them via friends in countries where they are legally obtainable - or by using forwarding services in neighbouring countries.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Then Clark transitioned to YouTube to make longer videos, and his friends joined in, becoming well-known characters in their own right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Mr. Rogers has been courting Lebanese Christian and Iraqi Catholic Chaldean voters, and even Sunni and Shiite Muslims: “I have friends in the Muslim community who are eager to be a counterweight.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

I could no longer even pray for family and friends by name, so great was the fear and longing wrapped around each one.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Just before Christmas 2022, someone purporting to be a San Diego woman named Viktoria Zara friended Kevin on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

“Facebook would always tell me, oh, you should be friends with Steve Badger, but I never friended him because I thought he was so mad at me about our awkward breakup,” Calkins said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

“Facebook was new and sparkly and you friended everyone,” said Ms. Schloss, who graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

A 2019 Swalwell campaign video shows the congressman and his family members on screen, and they appear to be the same people in the Facebook photos of the accounts friended to Fang.

From Fox News ● Dec. 9, 2020

“I’ve seen it. You friended me. And JP’s got one too.”

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

Imagine people friending you six months before an election and they're talking to you.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

“We often have free stuff,” Lu said in Mandarin to two men who crossed the border in January, after friending them on WeChat at the vegetable giveaway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

The News Feed, which dropped the “News” from its name earlier this year, pioneered a social feed that learns from explicit cues you give it, such as friending someone or following a page.

From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2022

For months, many of them have been posting comments and photos, friending each other and following fake Trump accounts.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022

There was very sharp work between Stanley and John Russell, who left off noble friending and took to noble lording him, to show that they were quite two.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville