acquaintance

Nationally, FBI data shows about 60% of reported self-defense killings involved a family member, boyfriend, girlfriend, friend, neighbor or acquaintance, according to a tally of 2019-2024 cases that recorded such relationships.

Just two days later, the FBI had arrested one on a $96 million contract, an acquaintance of the league’s most famous current player, and a coach who was already enshrined in basketball’s Hall of Fame.

All over the swimming ecosystem, former friends and acquaintances told Hawke that he was making an embarrassing mistake.

One acquaintance always answers the question “How are you?” with “Richly blessed and highly favored”—not “Everything sucks.”

This is the idea that any two people are connected by a short chain of acquaintances.