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From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Because who would watch a movie about two little girls who befriend a gentle forest creature and . . . that’s it?

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Hatton had unsuccessfully tried to befriend the old place on nine previous visits and, after starting with a two-over par 74 on Thursday, finally managed to ingratiate himself on Friday.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Dr. Kelson is so lonely that he’s begun to befriend one of those spine-ripping alphas, whom he calls Samson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

A child growing up on a farm surrounded by animals would naturally befriend some of them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The whale’s gullet is flickeringly lit by a bioluminescent jellyfish that Jay sort of befriends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the series, he plays Gerry, a patient with Parkinson’s who befriends Dr. Paul Rhoades, the therapist played by Harrison Ford, who is also navigating a Parkinson’s diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Once she settles in, the girl befriends other spirits and wins them over with her acceptance and understanding — including a few shunned by everyone else, like the famous No-Face.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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

Following my fifth year in repertory theater, casting director Rosemarie Tichler, who had befriended me at Carnegie Mellon’s TCG auditions, urged me to move to New York, so I did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Before that, he was a bartender newly arrived from Oklahoma that the drummer befriended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

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

Cyrus Field, the businessman who spearheaded the laying of the first telegraph cable under the Atlantic Ocean, had befriended the Garfields long before the shooting.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

He's devoted his life to this case - even befriending Megrahi during his quest to find answers.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

But by experiencing these girls and by befriending these girls, she is actually now opening her mind to be more susceptible to friendship, and ... understanding individuals who are different from who she is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Khalil has spoken at length about befriending Jewish students at Columbia, attending Shabbat dinners and seeing Jewish students as “integral” during the protest movement on campus.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026

“She was someone who was very interested in befriending others for status, more so than being a friend,” one classmate recalled.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

At the moment, arguing with a crazy wind god seemed safer than befriending an angry son of Hades.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan