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... each other often be called friends? Or maybe, two people who went to the school cafeteria together and had lunch together often?
No, right? Wouldn’t that make them classmates? Acquaintances at most. I was still a student, so I might just be reaching by saying this, but I don’t think those cases would be different from talking or having lunch with your colleagues at work.
With colleagues, while you might call them ‘acquaintances’, you would never call them ‘friends’ nor ‘buddies’.
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