acquaintance
Example Sentences
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Brewer, a paralegal and acquaintance of Buzzard, said in a statement that he visited Buzzard at her home to offer assistance in the search for the missing girl, and that the situation quickly escalated.
From Los Angeles Times
After the U.S. government shutdown began, with controllers required to work without pay, he said five U.S. controller acquaintances messaged him asking him about Australia.
In 2000, he came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies at Brown, where acquaintances say he struggled to adjust.
Copperfield’s lawyers have previously said he was an acquaintance of Epstein but not a friend.
This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, Hebrew-school classmates and, it sometimes seemed, any passing acquaintance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
