befriend
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Don’t miss: Why does almost nobody want to befriend older people like me — except scammers?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
They were, he recalled in “Making It,” “brave, proud, and unstintingly loyal once they had decided to befriend you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
After Alani regains her composure, they reenter and quickly befriend Wood, who plays an exaggerated, borderline agoraphobic version of himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
I can befriend Christina, and cut my hair short, and let other people clean up their own messes.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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
She spends her nights cleaning the local aquarium, where she befriends a Pacific octopus named Marcellus.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
He befriends Mr. Durand, who owns the station with his partner, Emma, a British researcher, and makes it his mission to keep their station going and the forest around it intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Amazon MGM’s presentation started with a trailer for a 2026 film adaptation of the Andy Weir sci-fi novel, “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling as a science teacher-turned-astronaut who befriends an alien to save Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
As he has no children to play with, he befriends the wild rabbits, offering them food and stroking their fur until he can touch their twitching noses.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Born in Minnesota, Bill Niman found himself in Bolinas in 1969, where he befriended lefty intellectuals who were critical of factory farming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
A friend of mine befriended a homeless man and took him in.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
One of the people Tuchel befriended at the bar was Max Herre, a Stuttgart musician who would go on to be one of Germany's most popular rappers.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The boy who had befriended her in the bookstore became her guardian angel.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
He's devoted his life to this case - even befriending Megrahi during his quest to find answers.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
When one man, Samuel Bateman, transforms himself from a schlubby loser to a new cult leader, Marie realizes he’s a predator and goes undercover, befriending him to bring him down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
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