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In this case, a trusted family member or friend can be enormously helpful for receiving the occasional piece of mail, replacement credit card or other documents that still must be sent the old-fashioned way.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

After learning the basics, Draper left his father’s firm three years later to set up a new venture-capital operation, Draper & Johnson, with a friend, Pitch Johnson, who was an engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

According to a friend, Huseynov left his home in Baku with unidentified men at about 16:00 on Wednesday, and his phone has been switched off ever since.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

"It's already been over 10 years. It's certainly going to be good for business," she said, without wishing to be named, accompanied by her friend and her dog.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“June”—Anna May addressed the thick-set older woman with unruly brown hair poking out from under her hat—“this is my friend Ruby Chan.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The toilets are in a "pitiful" state, some without locks; internet access is patchy in classrooms, and a lack of printer ink sometimes leaves handouts unreadable, he added, his friends nodding along.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Repeatedly, we instead heard that students were concerned about how it was affecting their job prospects, the brains of their friends and even the pursuit of education.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I am grateful for all the support and good wishes from former colleagues, friends and strangers, which have helped me and my family during this difficult time.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“A big hug to all the friends, neighbors, teachers, and people who have made it such a wonderful place to raise our family,” she wrote in an Instagram caption.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Family and friends would come from great distances and stay for days.

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

About four years ago, I casually friended a man on social media.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

“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

“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

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 George W. Gough