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A wan-faced Huntley befriended the media because he had a sinister motive: his need to know the details of the police inquiry.
Both are farm girls who cropped their hair and exclusively befriended boys.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/01/pj-harvey-interview-i-inside-the-old-year-dying
From his perch in Moscow, Bullitt mentored George Kennan, his deputy, and befriended the novelist Mikhail Bulgakov.
Grant was offered a home three days before he died, but Jess said he had befriended someone at his temporary accommodation who he "trusted in his hour of need".
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1841753/army-veteran-death-trolley-lancashire
He befriended Dr. King in the spring of 1956 after the young civil rights leader called and asked for a meeting.
“He was always willing to sit down and talk and try to craft a remedy,” Reggie Turner, a former fellow student who befriended Professor Ogletree on their first day, said in a phone interview.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/obituaries/charles-j-ogletree-jr-dead.html
In 1966, while helping run his uncle Frank Holt’s campaign for governor—Frank lost the Democratic nomination to Jack’s future foe, “Justice Jim” Johnson—Jack befriended young Bill Clinton, who was a campaign driver for Frank Holt.
Source: https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/03/06/arkansas-legal-legend-jack-holt-jr-dies-at-age-94
Khodakaramrezaei befriended Sadeghi in the online chat room in late 2021.
McShane said the father in the case later recanted his boasts that she had befriended his mother.
My Uncle Wink befriended a couple a bit older than him whom he helps with some day to day chores.
Source: https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2023/03/01/chilmark-town-column-march-3
“Orthodox Jews reached out to me, befriended me, and some even donated to my campaigns.” she writes.
Source: https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-antisemitism-2666299439/
Picard earned his first ship posting aboard the USS Reliant where he met and befriended Jack Crusher and eventually met Crusher's fiancée, Beverly Howard.
Source: https://screenrant.com/star-trek-jean-luc-picard-character-timeline-explained/
Prince Harry befriended at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
She fell under the control of Studholme, now 38, who had befriended her and went on to dominate and then abuse her in the year before her death.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67497063?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Simon Rogers, prosecuting, told the court that offences took place between 2013 and 2015, when Bell had befriended a then teenage boy.
Source: https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/23857914.wrexham-man-jailed-sexual-assaults-teenager/?ref=rss
"So then this way, they don't see any of this scary stuff, all they see is their avatar that they've befriended and are following around."
The episode focused on Homer Simpson being sent to a mental institution, where he befriended a large burly man named Leon Kompowsky.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/the-simpsons-stark-raving-dad-sequel/
The first season followed the machinations of Sauron the Deceiver who, posing as a deposed King of the Southlands, befriended Galadriel before both the immortals were taken into the custody of the Numenoreans.
Source: https://screenrant.com/rings-of-power-mordor-origin-tolkien-books-comparison/
There’s a fantastic story about a crow living in Waterville in the 1950s who was as intelligent as the humans he befriended.
Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/04/07/off-radar-comfort-is-an-old-barn/
They drew up a “kill list” of four other youths they intended to harm, until Brianna had the “misfortune” to be befriended by girl X, who became “obsessed” with her.