befriend

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

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

"The approach now is to try and befriend people, rather than coerce them."

From BBC ● May 20, 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

She didn’t want to tell him she was on her way to befriend the Nightingale.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Things get considerably more complex when, at the last minute, Lilac becomes one of the headliners at a book festival Sophie is working and briefly befriends her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Ortiz, 42, plays Rocky, an arachnoid alien made of stone-like material, who befriends Grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

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

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

Yes, carefully, carefully, he had met and befriended each of them on Earth in the last year!

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But Rose had been quietly fostering a relationship with the McLaren team that was much deeper than merely befriending golf-mad driver Lando Norris and CEO Zak Brown.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

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

Zoe hopes Gabriella continues befriending Deckers when she can.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera