familiarity
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Perhaps the band’s greatest strength is being able to project an intimate familiarity with the present, while drawing freely from the ’60s and ’70s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is benefit in Maresca's hire following Guardiola because it provides a sense of familiarity, particularly in the team's identity and their principles.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favour, conduced to my distraction.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
We have built up a repertoire of such gestures, such familiarities, between us.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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