familiarity

A splash of familiarity, as a conversation about the relationship we have with our nearest neighbours resumes.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Oppenheim said neither Holmes nor Evans voiced familiarity with his work when they opened their doors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The question is ultimately about familiarity, affinity, and allyship—not as symbolic gestures, but as evidence accumulated over years of shared political struggle. It is a proxy for trust,” he wrote.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

But chances are your guard is lowered by the familiarity of the caller’s voice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

She probably had a stronger familiarity with the window cat she passed on her way there than she did with 99 percent of the kids at Booker.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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