next friend
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of next friend
before 900; Middle English; Old English
Example Sentences
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Why not invite your next friend who reaches out to walk along Alki or Seward Park instead?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
In a rise which thus has more of Dale Carnegie than Horatio Alger in it, the next friend whom Ed Stettinius won and influenced was U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument.
From Time Magazine Archive
My next friend to testify is Pat Ruddy, eighty years old, one of the most intelligent and prosperous farmers living beside Ben Bulbin.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz
A few invitations to dinner, or to spend a week up country by a wealthy estanciero, advice from this friend and the next friend, and from a dozen friends maybe, but all different.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
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