family friend
noun
: a person who has known and spent time with one's family
She is a family friend.
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Speaking with Variety ahead of the festival, the filmmaker recalls first seeing Mailin crying on television as the interviewer asked her intrusive details about her abuse at the hands of her local priest and family friend Carlos Eduardo José.
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Celebrity hairstylist and family friend Chris Appleton did her stylish up-do.
—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
Last month, Baumgartner married family friend Joshua Connor.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Peter Brodsky, the mall’s chief executive, was a family friend and patron, with a Tobolowsky sculpture on the lawn of his residence.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Celebrity hairstylist and family friend Chris Appleton did her stylish up-do.
—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
Last month, Baumgartner married family friend Joshua Connor.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Peter Brodsky, the mall’s chief executive, was a family friend and patron, with a Tobolowsky sculpture on the lawn of his residence.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 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 22 Nov. 2025.
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