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familiarity

[fuh-mil-ee-ar-i-tee, -mil-yar-] / fəˌmɪl iˈær ɪ ti, -mɪlˈjær- /




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Oppenheim said neither Holmes nor Evans voiced familiarity with his work when they opened their doors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The question is ultimately about familiarity, affinity, and allyship—not as symbolic gestures, but as evidence accumulated over years of shared political struggle. It is a proxy for trust,” he wrote.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

By placing us inside John’s life, Baden Kelly vicariously produced, in some, a feeling of familiarity and, in others, discomfort.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

He has some familiarity with his teammates and coaches after being at spring training the last two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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

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

None of these episodes are bad, but they lack the magic trick that is St. Aubyn’s prose, replacing the books’ singular mix of high style and bleak substance with the energetic familiarities of genre.

From Slate ● May 10, 2018

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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