make acquaintance
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Libraries must be protected as places of learning and reading and as spaces "where we bump into each other and make acquaintance and see each other", Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
Drawing on longstanding social theory, the authors suggest that certain ingredients — sharing a goal, for example — make acquaintance more likely to bring affinity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2010
Now I will leave you in peace, Aunt Milly, to finish dressing; for I mean to make acquaintance with that big green hill before breakfast.'
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
But let us say that the young man is bold and ingenious, and bethinks him of a stratagem whereby to make acquaintance with the damsel.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
"I am sorry," he said, "to make acquaintance of this man's family in so unpleasant a way, for it went to one's heart to hear him speak of them."
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
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