overfamiliar

Example Sentences

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Unlike those reporters who parachute in to write about the “backward” nature of such folks, McHugh offers affectionate, respectful views of people a lot more complex than overfamiliar stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times

Without the overfamiliar words, the pain is still familiar.

From New York Times

An adaptation of Jake Bernstein’s non-fiction book Secrecy World, the true investigation, led by journalists, was one Soderbergh has said he was keen to play down, feeling such a narrative arc was overfamiliar.

From The Guardian

I was overfamiliar with the downside of not winning the Booker, and could see no downside at all to finally winning it.

From The Guardian

Yet if Carroll is making an aesthetic objection—Rebecca’s perspective is overfamiliar, and thus boring—my rejoinder is that Alam’s protagonist feels specific, believable, vital.

From The New Yorker