as in friends
a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another
my old college buddy is the one person I can always turn to
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Recent Examples of buddies
Here are a few key details about each person, who are my coworkers, my buddies, and my family members.
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Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
The two, who had grown up in the area, had been buddies since seventh grade, after getting to know each other at summer Bible camp.
—Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
Their mothers were seeing doctors that were friends with those doctors, working in the same hospital, golf buddies.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
Al Pacino grew up running the streets of the South Bronx with his buddies, getting into whatever trouble might present itself.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
After Saleh was fired this week, Rodgers jumped on a national television show with one of his buddies and a former teammate and denied having ordered the code red.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Perhaps your buddies have had an epiphany through the use of certain ceremonies.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
The idea that whales could become long-range diving buddies makes perfect sense to Christopher Clark, a bioacoustics researcher at Cornell University in New York who rubbed shoulders with Payne earlier in his career.
—Joanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
The irony is that songwriter Ezra Koenig and his buddies can’t relinquish memories, which inform, on the transportive B-side, the most somber, regretful music of their career.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
The two, who had grown up in the area, had been buddies since seventh grade, after getting to know each other at summer Bible camp.
—Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
Their mothers were seeing doctors that were friends with those doctors, working in the same hospital, golf buddies.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
Al Pacino grew up running the streets of the South Bronx with his buddies, getting into whatever trouble might present itself.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
After Saleh was fired this week, Rodgers jumped on a national television show with one of his buddies and a former teammate and denied having ordered the code red.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Perhaps your buddies have had an epiphany through the use of certain ceremonies.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
The idea that whales could become long-range diving buddies makes perfect sense to Christopher Clark, a bioacoustics researcher at Cornell University in New York who rubbed shoulders with Payne earlier in his career.
—Joanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
The irony is that songwriter Ezra Koenig and his buddies can’t relinquish memories, which inform, on the transportive B-side, the most somber, regretful music of their career.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Buddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buddies. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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