Friends
Girlfriends and friends are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Girlfriends" instead a noun "Friends".
Girlfriends
Friends and girlfriends are semantically related. You can use "Friends" instead a noun "Girlfriends".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Over the course of said activities/dates, Niko will engage in (often humorous) conversation with his friends/girlfriends, fleshing out not just the world and their characterizations, but his own as well.
Source: Video Game / Grand Theft Auto IV -
There are whole sites dedicated to galleries of photographs of plump/chubby/fat girlfriends/friends/neighbours, and erotic fiction about women who fatten up, intentionally or not, to become BBWs.
Source: Big Beautiful Woman - Power Up Letdown: Some of the abilities unlocked by keeping Relationship Values up with friends and girlfriends come off as this.
Source: Video Game / Grand Theft Auto IV
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