familiarly

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First, and most familiarly, much of the note is simply wrong.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

Nam chats familiarly with many customers, some of whom he’s known for over a decade, sprinkling in casual English words while maintaining some formality through Korean honorifics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

In humans, these viruses are more familiarly experienced as illnesses such as mumps, measles and respiratory tract infections.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2023

Blasto, as it’s called familiarly, lives in the dirt there and few other places.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

He was even more surprised at how familiarly Major Madu behaved, the way he sank into the sofa, got up to flip the album in the stereo, joked with the stewards serving dinner.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie