familiarity
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Is such sheer, universal familiarity the root of love — the kind of connection that everyone from Keats to Keaton wrote about — or does it trap you in one place, stunting your growth?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
‘Celebrity endorsements sell investments for the same reason they sell shoes: People confuse familiarity with trust.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
But chances are your guard is lowered by the familiarity of the caller’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He has some familiarity with his teammates and coaches after being at spring training the last two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
If my lack of familiarity with computers is strange to him, he doesn’t show it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
It is not, mercifully, a reboot of the original and iconic series starring Andy Griffith, but fans of that “Matlock” will find tonal familiarities in this one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
The courts in the early British colonies of Connecticut and New Haven ultimately indicted at least 34 women and men for the crimes of witchcraft and familiarities with the devil.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
Yet in “Jobe’z World” many of the departures from daily familiarities are minor, fussy, and stepwise rather than daringly disjunctive.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2019
None of these episodes are bad, but they lack the magic trick that is St. Aubyn’s prose, replacing the books’ singular mix of high style and bleak substance with the energetic familiarities of genre.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
Colors weren’t true either, but rather a vague assortment of shaded pastels that indicated not so much color as faded familiarities.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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