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"I had a friend who got to test that vaccine the year Martha got polio," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Our beloved bandmate, sister and friend Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer,” the band wrote in a statement on its Instagram on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

A friend and I were so inspired we decided to write a screenplay for a short, but we soon realized funding was harder than we thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Nuttakarn "Mint" Sevoy, 30, came for her childhood friend Top Sarobol who, like many killed on Sunday night, is believed to have died from smoke inhalation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

‘I knew him. There was a time when he was my best friend.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

A blue-collar job that paid the bills, weekend carne asadas with friends and family, children who followed their father’s example of hard work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

"These measures will be crucial in helping young people get the sleep they need, focus on school and college, and spend more quality time with family and friends."

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

I had close friends and was a good student.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

That would have not just saved me hundreds of dollars annually in baggage fees, it would also have benefited any friends traveling with me.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Yeah. He and his friends were at Duey’s Dips when Debbie brought him in.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“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

Six years later, in July 2007, with camp and about two dozen mutual friends in common, she friended him on Facebook before they each headed off to college.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

Ford Fischer, an independent journalist and prolific Wohl watcher whose video was linked in the above Instagram post, told me that Garcia-Andrews had friended him last October on Facebook.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2020

"There's been many people that have been described as having hung around him, socialized with him, friended him. We have Prince Andrew, I mean, the heir to the throne of England."

From Fox News ● Nov. 22, 2019

Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

Why the Cool Kids Are Playing Dungeons & Dragons Annalee Newitz traded Facebook for D&D: What drove me away from Facebook wasn’t just the fake friending.

From The Verge ● Apr. 9, 2019

I was thinking I'd gang all the way to London without coming across a man worth fighting, much less friending, but I was in the wrang of it.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.