pen pals

plural of pen pal

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pen pals
Noun
  • The Sketch Book was published under the name Geoffrey Crayon, one of Irving’s literary alter egos.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Robinson has a genius for channeling society’s ambient toxic vibes, in abstract but eerily evocative ways, through his odd alter egos.
    Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Family members, friends, and contemporaries in the industry have been posting tributes following the news.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens is named for its visionary David Fairchild, who, along with pals like Marjory Stoneman Douglas, opened the 83-acre garden in Coral Gables in 1938 at 10901 Old Cutler Rd.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Not so in this jaw-dropping A-frame that sleeps 10 of your luckiest pals.
    Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Volunteers also have the option to shop and deliver supplies, meet up with their buddies in the store or donate via gift card.
    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
Noun
  • Betting/odds, ticketing and streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • For example, emotion AI (when AI identifies human emotions) can help people with difficulty identifying emotions make sense of their meeting partners on video conferencing platforms like Zoom.
    Rachel Curry, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Beginning in 2012, my colleagues and I helped thousands of interdisciplinary teams at IBM become more entrepreneurial, more agile, and more customer-focused.
    Phil Gilbert, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Some of their most politically vulnerable members are returning to Washington desperate to keep colleagues in both chambers from losing interest in immediate results.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The two got on famously, and have been chums ever since.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Directed by Naohito Takahashi, the 25-episode run of Berserk takes on some of the manga’s most memorably chapters — from the introduction of its gruff, greatsword-swinging antihero Guts and his warrior comrades in the Band of the Hawk to their ultimate fate upon encountering a massive demon army.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Pen pals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pen%20pals. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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