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The appropriately named Bankrate Financial Taboos Survey concluded that 61% of U.S. adults said they would be uncomfortable talking about their bank-account balances with family members or close friends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
I traveled to Peru with my family and some close friends to learn more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
He was close friends with virtually all of Russia’s pre-eminent philosophers, historians and literary critics, among them Vissarion Belinsky, Timofei Granovsky, Nikolai Stankevich and Petr Chaadayev.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Turrell spoke movingly of the close friends he lost during the campaign, some of whom he buried in the field, and who are now buried in Commonwealth war cemeteries on the continent.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Finally she was sent to Shanghai, to some close friends with an invalid daughter; Theresa was to keep that daughter company for a few months.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
