family friend

noun

: a person who has known and spent time with one's family

She is a family friend.

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More than 60 people were in attendance altogether, a family friend who was there tells PEOPLE. —

Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024 Lincoln hatches a plan with family friend, Genelle (Deborah Joy Winans), to bring his girls back together again this Christmas. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 Mary Buffett, Buffett’s former daughter-in-law, and David Clark, a family friend and portfolio manager, collaborated to write Buffettology (Scribner, 1999), a book that discusses Buffett’s approach in an interesting and methodical fashion. —

Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 Meanwhile, Terranova’s lawyer, Vinoo Varghese, cast the family friend, who is identified in court documents as John Doe No. 2, as a clout-chasing liar who accused an NYPD officer to gain social media followers. —

Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for family friend

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