familiarity

Is such sheer, universal familiarity the root of love — the kind of connection that everyone from Keats to Keaton wrote about — or does it trap you in one place, stunting your growth?

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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

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

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

She let his gentleness and the quiet familiarity of the tree lull her to sleep.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

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