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
Johnson and Bukele documented their growing friendship on social media.
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T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
In this era of social media, that’s next-level friendship.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
In fact, today a friendship could turn romantic.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
As the two begin to get closer, the balance of their friendship is tested when both begin to wonder if their friendship is something more.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friendship
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In fact, Newman said, only children often demonstrated generosity, social skills and emotional intelligence.—
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In almost every instance of these notions of generosity, thanks were offered in return.—
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That’s a Grammy win for just brotherhood.—
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Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master.—
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Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.—
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Those who yearn for peace and stability, commerce and comradery, amity with our friends and neighbors?—
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Visuals of exaggerated cordiality between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Xi Jinping of China at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on September 1 displayed China’s convening power.—
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One of the institute’s medical personnel, Farah (Kate Dickie), greets them with the kind of clinical cordiality that undercuts its outwardly soothing welcome with unnerving detachment.—
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Resistance strategies began as a matter of survival, but the systems grew, evolved, and even came to foster goodwill across lines of race, class, and, in many cases, political affiliation.—
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The manner of his exit that summer, with Leeds in the Championship, soured any goodwill that still existed with their support.—
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Feklistov explained that the kid-friendliness of the resort tends to be on a case-by-case basis, depending on each family’s priorities and goals.—
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Known for their high energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness due to zinc’s abundance, zinc–air batteries are gaining increasing attention.—
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Because of its smallish size, Kentucky’s capital (population 28,000) is a city where neighborliness and politics go hand in hand.—
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Our small kindnesses to each other.—
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The most vulnerable among us deserve the most respect, most compassion, and most kindness.—
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“Friendship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friendship. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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