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The phrase "a friend visited" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that a friend came to see someone at a specific time in the past.
Example: "Yesterday, a friend visited and we spent the afternoon catching up."
Alternatives: "a friend came over" or "a friend dropped by."
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A friend visited her in East St Louis in 1997.
The New Yorker, November 5, 1932 P. 13 A friend visited Moscow this past summer.
The Cookshop that a friend visited in February wasn't the Cookshop that you visited in October.
Several years later, a friend visited her studio and suggested that she transfer her art works into a book.
Right after I moved in, a friend visited and installed a a wireless card in my dusty old iBook.
A friend visited the next day and found Hacker "very low and thought his recovery very doubtful as it was said he was dangerously hurt internally".
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My daughter Jessi had a friend visiting.
She gestured to a young woman at her side, a friend visiting from out of town.
This is more than a friend visiting occasionally – this is once a month more or less.
We had a friend visiting, who is about to become a dad for the first time.
"People, you know, complain that it's horrifying," he told a friend visiting his studio.
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