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used to

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familiar with adj.
accustomed to adv.

ADJECTIVE

familiar with

Synonyms

WEAK

acclimated accustomed at home with common commonplace customary everyday knowing known old hat ordinary plain recognizable routine well-known

ADVERB

accustomed to

Synonyms

WEAK

acclimated familiar with

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used to

Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

How’m I doin’? as another controversial, larger than life New Yorker used to ask.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Felipe Polo-Garzon analyzed the products with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, a technique used to separate and identify individual chemical compounds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Damon Krukowski, a musician and the legislative director at United Musicians & Allied Workers, said the deals so far don’t seem to benefit working-class musicians and could be used to cut them out entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

‘You used to deny that you were the Listener. Why so keen now?’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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