as in friendship
the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions
They missed the companionship of longtime friends after moving to California.
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Recent Examples of companionship
Pets enrich our lives in many ways, from providing companionship to helping reduce stress.
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Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Home-sharing programs are pairing students with seniors, creating mutually beneficial arrangements where both parties gain companionship and support.
—Lisa Belzberg, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025
Services such as live-in care, specialist dementia care and companionship services often command higher rates than standard domiciliary care.
—Marek Niedzwiedz, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Lao Cha, a janitor, finds companionship in a stray cat and befriends a woman named Li in a virtual world, only to discover that Li is actually a 10-year-old boy.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
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Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Home-sharing programs are pairing students with seniors, creating mutually beneficial arrangements where both parties gain companionship and support.
—Lisa Belzberg, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025
Services such as live-in care, specialist dementia care and companionship services often command higher rates than standard domiciliary care.
—Marek Niedzwiedz, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Lao Cha, a janitor, finds companionship in a stray cat and befriends a woman named Li in a virtual world, only to discover that Li is actually a 10-year-old boy.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for companionship
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For now, Lynch and Valkyria are the two beloved babyfaces who can dominate the women’s tag team division and form a friendship.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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This is a reminder of how much work went on behind the scenes to make Nostra Aetate possible — and the extent to which friendships between Catholic and Jewish communities in America still matter today.—
Joshua Stanton,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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The creativity the brothers bring from four decades of producing concerts and exploring design around the world while touring has injected a fresh perspective to HGTV, while their brotherhood has endeared them to viewers.—
Leena Tailor,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Apr. 2025
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He was entrenched in an exclusive brotherhood with teammates and classmates.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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An Ohio community remembers Fiona, a Great Pyrenees-golden retriever mix therapy dog, who completed a goal of over 1,000 therapeutic visits.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Health problems and the courts In the coastal community of Lafitte in southeast Louisiana, Tammy Gremillion is celebrating Easter Sunday, the anniversary of the April 20 spill, without her daughter.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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If Cullen marries his daughter, perhaps he’ll be inclined to complete a letter of recommendation that the young man had requested for a prestigious fellowship.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Preceding will be a brown bag dinner fellowship starting at 6 p.m. For details, visit ctksd.org or call 719-492-3091.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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This is often tied to a fear of intimacy — a subconscious fear of being emotionally vulnerable and dependent on someone else.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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These passages, among literature’s most poignant and strangely affirming, bridge the gap between the vastness of war and the intimacy of a single death.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Open for just 24 hours, starting April 24, the project is meant to humanize the harms of social media use among young children and call for governments and private companies to act urgently to protect online spaces for young users.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Read in English Post The Trump administration’s rapid escalation of a trade war with China has forced many companies to rethink their dependence on Chinese goods and access to the Chinese market—and face the prospect that the world’s two largest economies might be breaking up.—
Thomas Stackpole,
Harvard Business Review,
24 Apr. 2025
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Many non-Western societies embraced similar views, including Japan, a country that modernized rapidly in the twentieth century to compete with Western states while still retaining a distinct sense of its own identity.—
RANA MITTER,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Fear of government retribution is now spreading through society.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
22 Apr. 2025
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That emotional camaraderie has been a common theme for Regis Jesuit since losing the Class 5A championship to Cherry Creek last June 1 at All-Star Park, where the Raiders fell twice to the Bruins on the final day as the title slipped through their fingers.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
20 Apr. 2025
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Teammate Jaylin Williams echoed this sentiment, emphasizing that the Thunder’s camaraderie off the court is just as important as what happens on it.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Companionship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/companionship. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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