frienemy

• “He's got this invisible "frienemy" who is always standing against what he believes.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2009

• “Most of the guys that race this right out there on racetrack, as a driver, you -- everybody out there is your "frienemy," and I think that's kind -- that's a word that I think describes our relationship: frienemy.”

  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Is the Future of NASCAR? - March 19, 2001

• “It's no coincidence that seven of the nine newly removable features and applications compete with third-party software-in most cases Microsoft "frienemy" partners.”

  Microsoft Watch

• “You have to guess friends and enemies, so almost every one in the book is what I would call a "frienemy," including the cat.”

  Pass The Torch

• “Instead, Hicks splits the frienemy egg and gives Jun an ally on the inside.”

  From the Stack: The War at Ellsmere

• “FROM MTV. COM: With all the "New Moon" casting rumors that have been floating around since "Twilight" hit theaters, we were especially wondering who would play werewolf Leah Clearwater, Jacob Black's feisty and heartbroken frienemy.”

  ‘HSM3’ Star Vanessa Hudgens Auditions For ‘Twilight’ Sequel » MTV Movies Blog

• “Rod would have been a great foil / frienemy for Rogers.”

  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Rod Dreher Quits Dallas News

• “Another thing she shares with her frienemy Paris Hilton is DUI charges.”

  VH1 All Access Presents: Lindsay Lohan’s Hollywood Trainwreck

• “Then Mary Kate Olsen and her frienemy swapped boyfriends for a while.”

  Mary-Kate Olsen says, “I want to be Kate Moss”

• “JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY. ORG: China is one of these entities that you have to put in the frienemy (ph) category, that there are both partnership and adversarial elements of our relationship.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2007

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