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  • noun Plural form of wellwisher.

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Examples

  • The family also received a scholarship grant for Danica's education from wellwishers and some money to help them open a shop.

    World's 'seven billionth baby' is born 2011

  • Police will temporarily close more than 60 bridges to pedestrians to prevent the threat of the pope's convoy being attacked by protesters and avoid safety problems for wellwishers during his visit to Scotland.

    Pope's visit: Scottish police prepare security measures 2010

  • AFP/Getty Images Former Indonesian president Suharto waves to wellwishers in 2001.

    Suharto Wasn't Defamed by Time, Top Court Rules 2009

  • I was very young, but I remember that we went on board the ship, and visited their cabin, which was filled with flowers from wellwishers.

    The S. S. Lurline – The Bleat. 2009

  • I am appealing to wellwishers to help me raise money to take my son to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • "The Arctic always was Russian, and it will remain Russian," expedition leader Artur Chilingarov told reporters after he landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, where wellwishers brandished bottles of champagne and Russian flags.

    A most peculiar gesture Helen 2007

  • "The Arctic always was Russian, and it will remain Russian," expedition leader Artur Chilingarov told reporters after he landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, where wellwishers brandished bottles of champagne and Russian flags.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

  • I know exactly what you mean about wellwishers calling you up with the latest cure against autism.

    At My Table 2006

  • And a brilliant idea from their latest newsletter: a young Catholic bought - after raising funds from wellwishers for the project - 5,000 copies of the CTS booklet Cracking the Da Vinci Code and organised a team to leave copies in busus, trains, cafes, phone boxes, etc around Britain, each copy bearing a sticker saying "Pick me up and read me".

    Archive 2006-10-01 Joanna Bogle 2006

  • And a brilliant idea from their latest newsletter: a young Catholic bought - after raising funds from wellwishers for the project - 5,000 copies of the CTS booklet Cracking the Da Vinci Code and organised a team to leave copies in busus, trains, cafes, phone boxes, etc around Britain, each copy bearing a sticker saying "Pick me up and read me".

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2006

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