befriend
Example Sentences
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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
“They befriend you and say all the right things to get to you,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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
Sometimes, young men from Burundi would come to the camp with bikes to see if anyone wanted to be taken anywhere, and my brother Alex managed to befriend some of them.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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