make friends
idiom
: to become someone's friend
Sometimes it is hard for children to make new friends.
—often + withShe's very good at making friends with people from all walks of life.
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Navigating Friendships Learning how to make friends and deal with varying personalities is another big theme.
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Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 June 2024
These are our guitars, eight of them, in cases leaning warily against the walls and each other, learning to make friends with the dust.
—Cameron Carr, Longreads, 18 June 2024
Libra September 23 – October 22 Secrets might actually make friends today.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
But playing for Edgewood — which has two IB students — is his chance to make friends in a nonacademic, nonmusical context.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
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Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 June 2024
These are our guitars, eight of them, in cases leaning warily against the walls and each other, learning to make friends with the dust.
—Cameron Carr, Longreads, 18 June 2024
Libra September 23 – October 22 Secrets might actually make friends today.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
But playing for Edgewood — which has two IB students — is his chance to make friends in a nonacademic, nonmusical context.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
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“Make friends.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20friends. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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