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friend

[frend] / frɛnd /


VERB
add as a friend on social media
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George Stigler, Friedman’s close friend and co-founder of the Chicago School, said, “What an exhilarating event!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

On the second floor, 22-year-old Sian Dimitri Felipe and a friend battle it out over a video game.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

She also had a close friend who traveled with her overseas for a vacation during the worst of the breakouts, and mentioned in passing that she’d never even noticed Montalbo’s acne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But I am pretty much the only one in my friend group who thinks this way.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

I’m bewildered by how this foe seems a little bit friend as well.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Outside of work, Kariem enjoyed creating products with his laser engraver and 3D printers, as well as cooking, watching anime and spending time with family and friends, according to his profile on the school's website.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

A brother who stops his friends from committing a crime is more loyal than one who goes along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

But that "no longer exists," he said, adding that he misses sitting outside with his friends at night -- an activity now considered dangerous due to prolonged power cuts and heightened insecurity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

“If you are letting your friends pick up the bill, do not pick an expensive restaurant,” she says.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mom, Dad, and their friends huddle around the firepit in the front yard.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

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

In Slatten’s case, Singh had been catfishing her via a fake Facebook profile, friending her in 2013, but he ultimately came clean about his identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

But even if you could somehow equalize those things, the researchers suggest that would close only about half the gap, because of friending bias — the propensity of people to mostly befriend others like them.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022

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

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




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