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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Friend-finding apps: Cure to adult loneliness?

    More people are making friends through apps. Some work like dating apps, while others bring people together over dinner parties.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 3, 2024 • 1 min read

    More people are making friends through apps. Some work like dating apps, while others bring people together over dinner parties.

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    Shoppers were fired up over Thanksgiving weekend, gray wolves are back in CA
    1. 0:00South Korean president walks back martial law declaration
    2. 9:28Despite inflation, Americans are spending more this holiday season
    3. 16:33Friend-finding apps: Cure to adult loneliness?You’re reading this
    4. 26:54Child separation program in first Trump term is focus of new film
    5. 43:11Gray wolves are rebounding in CA, from Shasta to Tulare Counties
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