unfamiliar

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Some are mentally soothed by repeating specific words or phrases, a phenomenon known as echolalia, which can be misinterpreted by someone unfamiliar with the trait as mocking or uncooperative.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

For my own training, I give an AI tool a passage of something I’m trying to learn––a speech, a chapter, a set of unfamiliar names––and then I close the screen and try to recall it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Take another look at that unfamiliar form you mentioned.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

It is the type of profile that would not look unfamiliar for the players she admires.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

At home, children are exposed to a family’s musical heritage, which may contain music unfamiliar to those in their dominant culture.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin