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friend

[frend] / frɛnd /


VERB
add as a friend on social media
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The four-time major winner outscored his playing partner and close friend Sam Burns by seven shots as he signed for a four-under 66 to get back on the winning trail.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

"She was lovely - just like a friend you'd known all of your life," said Angela Powell who was among the first to arrive outside the singer's home.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Bill Perkins, the founder of Skylar Capital Management, was fired by his friend, the former energy trader John Arnold, for his wild trading style.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The impact threw his girlfriend, Serenity Rizkalla, and a friend, Michael Estrella, from the car.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Her best friend found it while borrowing some markers.

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

Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor, after he was found dead on Friday.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Meals can be a time to socialize and deepen bonds with family and friends.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

"We track what's happening and where, because our relatives, friends and colleagues are all over Kyiv and the region, so at least we understand what is happening and where," Reshetnyk said.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

“Prayers to all of our friends in Hawaii & crews flying to/from the islands!” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

How did I not know one of Trey’s good friends?

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

“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

Recently my friend's father "friended" me on Facebook.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 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

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

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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