friend
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“The crash also claimed the life of Sergio’s dear friend, Tito, and left Tito’s young daughter in critical condition.”
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
When McCain died in 2018, Graham delivered a tearful remembrance of his friend on the Senate floor and then came up to the press gallery for a question-and-answer session with reporters.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 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
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“The level of care Jennifer needs has gone beyond what friends and family can safely provide around the clock,” the band wrote.
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
When I don’t answer, she scoffs again before joining her friends on the dance floor.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
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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
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
But all the time I knew perfectly well that the great show of honor and "friending" was not for me alone.
From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Terry, Ellen
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