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Hundreds of people treat the request like religion, posting screenshots of their recent ratings to find new people in the community to befriend and follow.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

“They befriend you and say all the right things to get to you,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

In target dorms on campus, we hung posters that presented accurate data about the percent of undergraduates who wanted to help and befriend others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Hagrid had been known to befriend giant spiders, buy vicious, three-headed dogs from men in pubs, and sneak illegal dragon eggs into his cabin.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Ortiz, 42, plays Rocky, an arachnoid alien made of stone-like material, who befriends Grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Cathy befriends young Heathcliff after her rich, alcoholic father brings him to live and work as a servant on their estate perched atop the windy English moors.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

“Game of Thrones” fans know him as the longtime maester of the Night’s Watch who befriends Jon Snow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

Lise has run-ins with other passengers aboard her flight and, once at her destination, befriends a bumbling, dotty widow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Insects are beset not only by viruses and bacteria but also by fungi, protozoa, microscopic worms, and other beings from all that unseen world of minute life that, by and large, befriends mankind.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Perhaps her most memorable role, however, came two years later when Fricker was cast as the homeless bird lady befriended by Macaulay Culkin's Kevin in Home Alone 2.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Irish actor Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in “My Left Foot” and whose Pigeon Lady befriended Macaulay Culkin‘s Kevin McCallister in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Aang befriended Zuko, an exiled Fire Nation prince who at first hunted Aang to regain his father’s approval before joining his quarry’s mission to restore peace.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

One of Mozart’s earliest friendships was with the young English prodigy Thomas Linley, whom he met and befriended in Italy.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

He also apologized for befriending Oxford, and he signed off with a request to correspond and perhaps visit someday.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

While Aang’s saga follows the trajectory of Western fantasies that revolve around a Chosen One, his stubborn insistence on nonviolence and befriending perceived enemies reflects Miyazaki’s reverence for empathy, innocence and life’s natural beauty.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Following Kim Il Sung's death, Kim Jong Il rose to become North Korea's supreme leader, and Ko became the country's de-facto first lady, accompanying her husband on military inspections and befriending his entourage.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

When my colleague Malia Mendez went to an event recently, people told her that attending Junk Journal Club “has made befriending strangers easy,” and many of them stay in touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

The governor sits down on the edge of his desk and gives me a befriending smile.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez