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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

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

As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after moving to New York in the mid-1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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 knew that Ocean, for example, would never befriend me beyond this school assignment.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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

A friend of mine befriended a homeless man and took him in.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Over the years, he has befriended sports figures like Mike Tyson, Don King and Herschel Walker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

His family moved from the Southeast part of Washington DC when Armstrong was young and later settled in a largely white neighbourhood in Maryland, where he befriended a soccer coach's son.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

After our visit to Adat Reyim, an inclusive, independent synagogue in Springfield, Virginia, I befriended its spiritual leader, Rabbi Bruce Aft.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

Later on, when Junior went to secondary school, he befriended some boys who taught him more about foreign music and dance.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

“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

He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happen to share.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri