acquaintance
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When she told an acquaintance about it, they said, “These are not your friends. You need a lawyer, right away.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Eastern time after an acquaintance called 911, police said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Earlier that day, however, witnesses testified that Powers had argued with a mutual acquaintance of Byrd and Roberts named Bud.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
"A friend, family member, coworker, classmate, or acquaintance may recognise these patterns of expression and possess information that could help identify the individual responsible," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other, and out of their three months’ acquaintance they had been intimate two.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
She had told them that on 15 July she would go to Kypseli, where her "American friends" or acquaintances were.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
In Kate Christensen’s novel, a writer re-evaluates her life after encountering old acquaintances at her alma mater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In 1952, Greenspan married an abstract expressionist artist named Joan Mitchell and soon came under the intellectual sway of one of her acquaintances, Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
I’ve tried for a year to get some of my closest acquaintances to understand why this song is so great, why I find it so bizarrely beautiful, but few do.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Neighbors and acquaintances eat outside in the yard and in the street, and the family eats indoors.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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