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From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

In a similar leap, Jimmy and Alice forgive and befriend Goldstein’s Louis, the man who crashed his car into Tia’s and killed her.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 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

One day, No. 46 approached Brown, trying to befriend him.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The wife of a loaded investor dabbles in documentary filmmaking and befriends the spouse of a laid-off factory worker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

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

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

Iger befriended the Lakers’ current head coach JJ Redick when Redick played for the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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

In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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

Henry bides his time, watching other subjects closely before befriending Eleven.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

Unfortunately for me and Eliza, her befriending me meant being iced out by Mariel and Dagmara, so her entrance onto the team did nothing to quell my discomfort.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad