as in devotee
someone who wants another person to be happy, successful, etc.
Dozens of well-wishers gathered to say goodbye to him.
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Recent Examples of well-wisher
The comments section was flooded by A-list well-wishers, like Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lil Nas X, and Nina Dobrev (who recently announced her engagement to Shaun White).
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Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
The teenager covered his face and cried with joy, barely able to shake the hands of well-wishers who had moved to congratulate him.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
And well-wishers including Andy Garcia, Debbie Allen, Chris Botti and Cimafunk returned the favor on stage.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
In a wooded area outside the prison’s main gates, about 100 intellectual celebrities, sympathetic journalists, and general well-wishers had gathered in solidarity.
—Longreads, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
The teenager covered his face and cried with joy, barely able to shake the hands of well-wishers who had moved to congratulate him.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
And well-wishers including Andy Garcia, Debbie Allen, Chris Botti and Cimafunk returned the favor on stage.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
In a wooded area outside the prison’s main gates, about 100 intellectual celebrities, sympathetic journalists, and general well-wishers had gathered in solidarity.
—Longreads, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-wisher
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The braided and beaded trinkets are woven with messages of kindness, song lyrics or inside jokes among her devotees, who cluster in venue aisles and interminable merchandise lines at concerts to trade as part of their own secret society.Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year, wellness devotees largely hailing from California sought out raw milk contaminated with bird flu in the hopes that drinking it would give them antibodies.Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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The sport has entered a twilight zone where Indiana has already qualified for a bowl and Vandy fans are toting a goalpost through downtown Nashville and throwing it into the Cumberland River.David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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The second match sees the Houston Texans host Baltimore and in a gift for sports and music fans alike Beyonce will perform the half-time show.Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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This includes talking to Mangione's family and friends and examining his social media postings.Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Shanghai Tang was clearly a proponent of this, especially given Tang’s larger-than-life personality, style (he was rarely photographed out of his Tang jacket), and a wide circle of celebrity friends—captured in the exhibition’s wall of fame montage.Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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But one big question many senators will likely ask is how Kennedy plans to turn around America's eating habits in a way that doesn't hurt U.S. farmers or heavily regulate agricultural businesses that are key political supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is one of Putin’s staunchest backers and a vocal supporter of the war in Ukraine.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Well-wisher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/well-wisher. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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