pen pals

noun

plural of pen pal
as in alter egos

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pen pals
  1. alter egos
  2. friends
  3. pals
  4. buddies
  5. partners
  6. colleagues
  7. musketeers
  8. chums
Noun
  • With a few simple prompts, anyone can summon up a team of realistic alter egos.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Duality comes up a lot in Cameron’s work—alter egos, inner contradictions, mirror images.
    — Nicola Dall'Asen, Allure, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of alter egos
Noun
  • And so there are friends who are hustling, pivoting to influencing in an effort to get money, to try to figure out how to capitalize on this moment.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • At first, the scuffle only involved the original two women, but quickly chaos broke out as smaller fights broke out all over from around a dozen friends or spectators, the report read.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of friends
Noun
  • Bruce Springsteen’s Friendship with Barack Obama Springsteen and then-senator Barack Obama became pals on the campaign trail in 2008.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026
  • So a terrorist problem more closely associated with Washington’s pals in Saudi Arabia was conveniently and strategically spread around.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of pals
Noun
  • One of his buddies needed insulin and waited up to four hours each day in the medical area to receive his necessary shots.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Also, tell your buddies about this essay from our new trust-in-science reporter, Nick Florko.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of buddies
Noun
  • The Islamic Scholarship Fund, New York production and post house Lost in Space, and Aneesa Talks, which filmmaker Aneesa Khan founded to support South Asian and Muslim creatives, have also signed on as partners.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Toyota plans to provide research access through the University of Michigan Electric Vehicle Center, allowing other research partners to use its battery testing and evaluation capabilities.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of partners
Noun
  • The Ratepayer Protection Act, meant to prevent data centers from raising electricity prices, enjoyed sweeping support in the House from all but three Democrats while all but four of their colleagues in the Senate opposed it.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Anthony Jack, Richard Boyatzis and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University coached people once about their personal vision and once about their current problems, then scanned them with fMRI.
    — Catherine Bell, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of colleagues
Noun
  • When published in 1844, Dumas' novel, which evokes the adventures of musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan — yes, there were actually four musketeers — became an overnight sensation.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While the hero existed — as did Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or at least musketeers with similar names — most of the actual stories are invented, either by the sensationalist biographer or Dumas himself.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of musketeers
Noun
  • As his college chums settled into respectable professions, Hawthorne shrank from the grim prospect of free enterprise.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Commissioned by Mattel as a blatant weekly half-hour commercial for its popular toy line, the show pits He-Man and his heroic chums against the evil (but strangely inept) Skeletor in a battle for control of Castle Grayskull.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of chums
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