familiar
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The accounting firm cut about 3% of its U.S. workforce across audit, tax and consulting, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Harron asserts that Solanas’ actions were not the result of a brief, blind rage, but of a chronic discontent — a state of mind that looks all the more familiar two decades later.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
It looked disorientingly familiar to a fellow Egyptian American: Art from Egypt lined the walls, with brass pieces and calligraphy you’d find in a Cairo bazaar.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
This machinery is so familiar to many people that they rarely question it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
When I look from the bathing suit to the girl wearing it—and the girl next to her in an equally familiar tie-dye suit—I startle.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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