family friend

noun

: a person who has known and spent time with one's family
She is a family friend.

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In the one-woman play, which stars Michelle Azar, Ginsburg welcomes a family friend to her chambers to spend 90 minutes talking about key moments that shaped her life: From losing her mother at a young age to fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s before condescending all-male courts. Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025 So when my family friend with a child under one called about protecting her children, my advice was clear. Dr. Ashish K. Jha, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025 This approach flirts with sketch comedy stretched beyond its natural limits, but is fully validated in the form of Poorna Jagannathan’s Auntie Lucky, the Dars’ doting family friend who turns out to be a cold-blooded queenpin. Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 All of Fairmont is abuzz with the news that Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett) — ex-husband of Nicole’s sister, Dani (Karla Mosley) — is planning to marry his much younger girlfriend (and former Dupree family friend) Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings) at the Fairmont Country Club. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for family friend

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“Family friend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/family%20friend. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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