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At a San Francisco playground, a stranger tried to befriend an OpenAI employee who was there with their child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

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

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

There were no boys his age whom he could befriend in the camp.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

She spends her nights cleaning the local aquarium, where she befriends a Pacific octopus named Marcellus.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 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

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

She dated artist Joseph Cornell and befriended other artists such as Donald Judd and Eva Hesse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Another memorable role 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 ● 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

More important, it appeared that he had befriended the Romagna and had won the support of all of its populace once the people began to taste the beneficial results of his rule.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

It might also mean befriending the people that made her fall in love with music in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

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