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friendly

[frend-lee] / ˈfrɛnd li /


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What’s different is that the new middleman looks less like a booking website than a friendly, knowledgeable travel adviser.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Attorney General Todd Blanche dropped by “Jesse Watters Primetime” on his first day on the job, almost certainly expecting a friendly interview.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

He gets heckled a lot, even amid ostensibly friendly crowds.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

"The party broke up in a none too friendly atmosphere," the report said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

I dozed too, from time to time, my head on the shoulder of the friendly girl behind us.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Whilst there is no standard practice for organising international professional friendlies, smaller African teams generally rely on agencies to manage their away fixtures and don't necessarily make any profit from the games.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"African football associations accept these deals because everything is taken care of. It saves them having to find opponents and organise friendlies," explained an expert on African football who asked not to be named.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The lengthy 16-day session will feature friendlies against Peru and Chile in September and against Mexico and Canada during the first week of October.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sporting director Richard Hughes was at the friendlies in Nashville and New York but not at the game on Sunday.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

I got excited every time, hoping that we’d run into some friendlies, maybe even someone we knew from before.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Growth-stock valuations would get a friendlier discount rate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Others have shifted to chicken, beverage and other competitors that offer friendlier service and fuller staffing, customers and market-research firms said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Indeed, United did not have a shot on target until the ninth minute of second-half stoppage time, substitute Simi Awujo's goal giving the scoreline a friendlier look.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

This one seems a whole lot friendlier but just to be certain, I check that Max's bag is securely on my shoulders.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

The friendliest U.S. cities, according to World Cup tourists.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Decades of retelling this story means "kindliest" has now turned into "friendliest".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Now it’s Alcaraz who has closed the gap, on Sinner’s friendliest terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2025

Your executive producer on "Watson" said that it would be fun to cast the friendliest man in the world in this role.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025

“Yes, this ought to do the job,” said Roz, in her friendliest voice.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown


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