familiar

Example Sentences

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Warm, savory, digestible, familiar—I reach for this most mornings, appetite or no.

From Salon

But on Monday night in Cleveland’s Rocket Arena, where the familiar chant reached arena-filling decibels, it felt different.

From Los Angeles Times

“But I think we’re all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Efforts by Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia in recent days were similarly fruitless, people familiar with those outreaches said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sentiment shifted after the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reached out to potential trading counterparties at the direction of the Treasury Department on Friday for so-called rate checks, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal