unfamiliar with
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There is probably one thing worse than sitting for hours waiting for an X-ray or a follow-up appointment, only to be greeted by another well-meaning stand-in who is frustratingly unfamiliar with your file.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Even more voters were unfamiliar with the other candidates.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Much of “Reflections on Cinematography,” it must be said, will leave readers unfamiliar with the more technical aspects of filmmaking in the dark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Darren Stewart, coroner for Suffolk, said different schools using different safeguarding information management tools "may result in a risk to life due to teachers being unfamiliar" with new systems when they changed jobs.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
Most of them stood up hastily, or waved from their chairs, like Radine’s dad, a big, ruddy Texan, just as unfamiliar with this scene as Papa was.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
