well-wisher
noun
well-wish·er
ˈwel-ˌwi-shər 
-ˈwi-
: one who wishes well to another : an admiring supporter or fan
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In the first few minutes, John (Paul Anthony Kelly) reads a card from the numerous bouquets well-wishers have sent to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Naomi Watts) following her diagnosis with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Erin Jensen, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Guthrie home is attracting well-wishers, gifts from neighbors Karen Sullivan's first stop after arriving in Tucson from Hawaii to visit a longtime friend was Guthrie's home.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Along with a small corps of well-wishers in the house, a group of more than 20 friends and family spanning the nation from the Carolinas to California wished her well on Zoom in a 90-minute period of love, memory and more than 40 photos.
—Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
But the longest line of the night formed around first-time nominee Michael B. Jordan as well-wishers queued up to congratulate him on his Golden Globe nomination for Sinners, Ryan Coogler's audacious horror film that became one of the highest-grossing original movies of the 2020s.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 11 Jan. 2026
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Erin Jensen, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Guthrie home is attracting well-wishers, gifts from neighbors Karen Sullivan's first stop after arriving in Tucson from Hawaii to visit a longtime friend was Guthrie's home.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Along with a small corps of well-wishers in the house, a group of more than 20 friends and family spanning the nation from the Carolinas to California wished her well on Zoom in a 90-minute period of love, memory and more than 40 photos.
—Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
But the longest line of the night formed around first-time nominee Michael B. Jordan as well-wishers queued up to congratulate him on his Golden Globe nomination for Sinners, Ryan Coogler's audacious horror film that became one of the highest-grossing original movies of the 2020s.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 11 Jan. 2026
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