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‘I’ve no idea how they got her number’: My student-loan servicer called a friend after I missed a payment.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

McGurn, who has a college friend at the fusion company, was also chief executive of several Yorkville-linked special-purpose acquisition companies, blank-check firms that raise capital to take other companies public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The two-time major winner is a friend of Trump, serving on the President's council on sports, fitness and nutrition, playing golf with him and making an appearance at the White House in May.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy," he wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

The children forgot Clare and ran, sprinting along the river, screaming and tripping and trying to save their small friend.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Ajaero and his friends arrived in Yosemite on a Friday afternoon and were surprised to find there was no line to enter the Big Oak Flat entrance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Just over a year later, in June 2022, Jeremy died after eating a beef sausage on a camping trip with friends at a beach north of Sydney.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Tell your doctors, family and friends what you want to happen if you’re terminally ill — and why you want it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

DJs, bartenders, door people, lovers, ex-lovers, activists and friends formed networks that were not always formal but were often lifesaving.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

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

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

“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

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

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.