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
He also was known for hosting cigar Fridays in his garden with his buddies and for doting on his Golden Retrievers.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Written by Sebastian Black, the script sees a drug dealer and his two slacker buddies hired to transport a troubled teen across the country.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Whipper also discusses his friendship with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in 1906, at the age of thirty-three; the two men had been neighbors and fishing buddies.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Daniel is somebody who grew up as a street kid in Naples with a character in the show named Bignè, who was one of his old running buddies.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
His buddies just … barked at him in the weight room.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
The two became buddies and kept in touch after Shaw moved to Texas.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
It was inspired by the real-life buddies program at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an organization Kramer co-founded.
—Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Back in the spring of 2004, writing buddies Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen decided to enter a musical in a New York theater festival.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Written by Sebastian Black, the script sees a drug dealer and his two slacker buddies hired to transport a troubled teen across the country.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Whipper also discusses his friendship with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in 1906, at the age of thirty-three; the two men had been neighbors and fishing buddies.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Daniel is somebody who grew up as a street kid in Naples with a character in the show named Bignè, who was one of his old running buddies.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
His buddies just … barked at him in the weight room.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
The two became buddies and kept in touch after Shaw moved to Texas.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
It was inspired by the real-life buddies program at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an organization Kramer co-founded.
—Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Back in the spring of 2004, writing buddies Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen decided to enter a musical in a New York theater festival.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buddies
friends
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Hamilton County Coroner's Office investigators are looking for relatives or friends of a West End woman who died recently.—
Enquirer staff,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Sep. 2025
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Her son helps clip succulents and pick pumpkins and in the past his friends have gotten involved in helping assemble the gift bags.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Buddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buddies. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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