unfamiliar
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If you don’t already have a camera, or are replacing one, stay away from cheap or unfamiliar brands, says Paul Marrapese, a California cybersecurity specialist who has researched hacked webcams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
A 2017 study in North Carolina found more than 90% of alpha-gal cases were misdiagnosed, often as food poisoning, because doctors were unfamiliar with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Others told BBC Punjabi of seeing masked or unfamiliar people inside the university.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
To this list we must add Indian director Satyajit Ray’s 1970 drama “Days and Nights in the Forest,” which does not deposit its cast into a different country but into surroundings that are nonetheless unfamiliar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The European names are unfamiliar and hard to spell.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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