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This is where India's rich and powerful have hobnobbed for years, building social capital over cigars or squash and brokering business deals during golf sessions.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

Stewart and Lynda Resnick have hobnobbed with such Southern California fixtures as Barbra Steisand, and they’re prominent among local philanthropists, with their name on a sizable chunk of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2019

You see it has been so many months since I have hobnobbed with Lilies-of-the-Field and with Solomons-in-all-their-Glory.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

Cato the Censor could have hobnobbed with old Josiah Quincy, for they were temperamentally as like as two peas.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

To have gone up and down and round the township; to have been on the spot when accidents happened; to have hobnobbed with Tom, Dick and Harry in bars and saloons.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel