familiarity
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But chances are your guard is lowered by the familiarity of the caller’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
That relationship takes physical form inside the Melrose Hill shop, unfolding through a two-part imagined landscape that evokes an alien presence settling into the familiarity of a suburban setting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Her father Columba Mailey said "familiarity with the driver is crucial for Maisie" adding that "24 hours before Maisie starts the new term we have no clarity".
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
This kind of familiarity is one of the pleasures of becoming a regular somewhere: over time, without really deciding to, two people accumulate small pieces of information about each other.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
When they had brought me to Thurmond, the familiarity of the scenery had been more a comfort than a painful reminder.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
A virtuoso of intimacy, Hamaguchi has a thing for cars or, more specifically, the familiarities their tight spaces create.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
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
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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