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hobnobbers

noun

plural of hobnobber

as in associates

a person frequently seen in the company of another the actor's agent is a hobnobber with a lot of big movie producers

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Beck didn’t participate in the book, but Riesman finds enough friends, family and associates to assemble a complex portrait of an artist who wants his audiences to see him as fashion-forward but has had a hard time shaking his past.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
John Giusti, a chiropractor with an independent practice outside Dallas and Forth Worth, was found dead on Monday, friends and business associates said on social media.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

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And because nobody washed the dishes before tossing them into the feasting pit, King and his colleagues (in a 2017 study) could analyze the microscopic residue of ancient drinks that had soaked into the ceramic.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
Whether El Niño will continue to strengthen is something Cole and her colleagues’ records can’t answer, but scientists are using climate models to try to puzzle that out.

— Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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In the weeks since her son died during a Fourth of July boating trip with friends, Christine Wells-Wonsley and her husband, Elmore, have become a fixture at the civil rights attorney’s side.

— Ryan Young, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Afterward, a few friends made the half-mile trek east to the Mabee Center on the edge of campus.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

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Trout and Neto reached out to an unnamed Rams player on Tuesday to gather intel on their new owner, who has a sterling reputation amongst his NFL peers.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Mice on semaglutide explored more, balanced longer on a rotating rod, ran farther on a treadmill and solved a maze faster—gains that held even after the researchers accounted for the animals just being leaner than their peers.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026

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