au fait

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However, Nelson is less au fait with Asian finance and politics than his predecessor, Mark Tucker, a veteran of Hong Kong’s insurance industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

But perhaps the McLaren driver was not completely au fait with Max Verstappen’s day.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

"In preparation I've been to see an old friend who's getting me au fait with the rules of magic. "The show is going to have a big fantastical element.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016

Like many of his contemporaries, he was au fait with the new science – with Darwin, Lyell et al – but equally troubled by change.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2012

Nevertheless, I suspect that the majority of English readers—I mean the English readers of French—are more au fait of the original literature 276 of France than M. de Ch�teaubriand supposes.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton