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He befriended the new student.
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Over several years, victims were beaten, threatened and humiliated, while perpetrators befriended parents to screen them from the systemic abuse.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Everyone loves Mel and Jack - who wouldn’t want to befriend this nice, honest, hard-working, heroic and, certainly, good looking couple?
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Over the course of the games, Gi-hun also befriended Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon), a young North Korean defector trying to raise her younger brother, and Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su), an elderly man with a brain tumor who was secretly the creator of the games.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Where to watch:Paramount+. 'Speak No Evil' In the remake of the super-duper bleak 2022 Danish horror movie, James McAvoy stars as a gregarious Englishman who befriends an American couple (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis) and invites them to his family's country estate.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Everyone loves Mel and Jack - who wouldn’t want to befriend this nice, honest, hard-working, heroic and, certainly, good looking couple?
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Over the course of the games, Gi-hun also befriended Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon), a young North Korean defector trying to raise her younger brother, and Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su), an elderly man with a brain tumor who was secretly the creator of the games.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Where to watch:Paramount+. 'Speak No Evil' In the remake of the super-duper bleak 2022 Danish horror movie, James McAvoy stars as a gregarious Englishman who befriends an American couple (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis) and invites them to his family's country estate.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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befriend
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be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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