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
Volunteers also have the option to shop and deliver supplies, meet up with their buddies in the store or donate via gift card.
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Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2025
After that initial week, my buddies from college came down to see me, which was super nice.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
Connecting grocery buddies across the country While many of the grocery buddy systems popping up around the country are based in specific communities, Nina Quincy had a different idea.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
After catching a few brief glimpses of Dick in the premiere, we were more formally introduced to him midway through Episode 2 during a night out at Derry's Falcon Tavern for him and two of his airmen buddies.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
Snacks like apples with peanut butter, chocolate milk, or PB&Js become my trail buddies.
—Jamilee Hoglind, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
The company was founded by high school buddies Mark Warren and Chris Pence, who came together to start the business in 2012 and have since expanded into a 13,000-square-foot facility that houses a 20-person team.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Recap with your running buddies, and reconnect with your other friends.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 29 Oct. 2025
Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2025
After that initial week, my buddies from college came down to see me, which was super nice.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
Connecting grocery buddies across the country While many of the grocery buddy systems popping up around the country are based in specific communities, Nina Quincy had a different idea.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
After catching a few brief glimpses of Dick in the premiere, we were more formally introduced to him midway through Episode 2 during a night out at Derry's Falcon Tavern for him and two of his airmen buddies.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
Snacks like apples with peanut butter, chocolate milk, or PB&Js become my trail buddies.
—Jamilee Hoglind, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
The company was founded by high school buddies Mark Warren and Chris Pence, who came together to start the business in 2012 and have since expanded into a 13,000-square-foot facility that houses a 20-person team.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Recap with your running buddies, and reconnect with your other friends.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 29 Oct. 2025
Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buddies
friends
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Family members, friends, and contemporaries in the industry have been posting tributes following the news.—
Mikelle Street,
Them.,
10 Nov. 2025
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The idea has come up in internal BBC News meetings and been ventilated on BBC airwaves by friends of the corporation like David Yelland, once a key figure in the Murdoch empire and now a communications specialist with his own BBC podcast.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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