as in generosity
kindly concern, interest, or support
I appreciate your friendship during this difficult time for my family
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Recent Examples of friendship
The two forged an enduring professional partnership and friendship.
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 19 June 2025
When that’s the case, friendship researchers say there are ways to cancel that are less likely to damage the relationship.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
This year’s fresh lineup of home-field and far-flung journeys spotlights delectable food, warm friendships, picturesque landscapes, dazzling discoveries, spirited camaraderie and laughter galore.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Furry friends may provide more than forever friendship to children.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 18 June 2025
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 19 June 2025
When that’s the case, friendship researchers say there are ways to cancel that are less likely to damage the relationship.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
This year’s fresh lineup of home-field and far-flung journeys spotlights delectable food, warm friendships, picturesque landscapes, dazzling discoveries, spirited camaraderie and laughter galore.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Furry friends may provide more than forever friendship to children.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friendship
Noun
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Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
Noun
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The cowboy, that paragon of rugged individualism, stands for stoicism and a wordless sweaty brotherhood.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Soda Stereo's Zeta Bosio, Charly Alberti, and more look back at how high expectations, tragedy, and a lasting brotherhood shaped the Argentine masterpiece June 21, 2025 First, there’s the black and white portrait.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
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Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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As part of this distancing, Seoul promotes a narrative (as seen in its recent monuments and museums) that emphasizes Japan’s wartime violence and highlights Korean amity with China.—
Jennifer Lind,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Mar. 2015
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But while Trump and Putin speak of each other with cordiality, relations are testier between the two countries than the rhetoric would indicate.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
26 May 2025
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His finest strengths are personality and cordiality, and both were amplified on the stage.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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That reservoir of goodwill, built slowly over time, becomes a stabilizing force in moments of chaos.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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The mission will foster goodwill, strengthen existing partnerships with partner nations, and encourage the establishment of new partnerships among countries, non-federal entities, and international organizations.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Their friendliness with the crew seems to have paid off: Tests suggest the adult cat was mainly eating fish and meats like pork, poultry and beef.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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Many of them are encouraged at friendliness to their cause in the Trump administration.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
1 May 2025
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Indeed, the designer’s intentions are based on high ideals — kindness, tolerance and humility among them — even if his methods can sometime shock.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
25 June 2025
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Coach Wall was a remarkable individual whose kindness and genuine spirit touched all who knew him.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Bayes published only two papers in his lifetime: one a defense of God’s benevolence, the other a defense of Newton’s calculus.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Coercing democratic allies such as Canada or Denmark more broadly weakens trust in U.S. alliances; threatening Panama reawakens fears of imperialism throughout Latin America; crippling the U.S. Agency for International Development undercuts the United States’ reputation for benevolence.—
Robert O. Keohane,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2025
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“Friendship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friendship. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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