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acquaint

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Example Sentences

Back in January, she was a 38-year-old first-time mother who was getting acquainted with all the practical challenges of attempting to maintain some semblance of work-life balance.

The good news is that we’re already well acquainted with some members of the family.

While “there’s no upside to this pandemic,” she says, without it, the two surely would have never become acquainted.

While all conscious beings are acquainted with their consciousness, not all conscious beings are able to reflectively attend to their experience and form acquaintance-based concepts of it.

If the goal-directed nature of Reality is present within each particular conscious mind, it follows that any conscious mind is acquainted with the goal-directed nature of Reality.

Some of the colonists sincerely desired to acquaint and convert the Indians to Christianity.

It would do little or no good to acquaint the constable with their suspicion that the rascal might be the man named Cameron Smith.

Who will acquaint us when there is a concert, a choral service in church, or something wonderful to be seen at the fair?

At length the German commissioner arrived, and came to acquaint us that within two days we were to set out.

In the meantime Painted Weasel had ridden away to acquaint his companions with the plans of the war party.

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What is another way to say acquaint?

Acquaint emphasizes familiarity that arises from bringing persons into social contact: to acquaint oneself with the team. The more general verb introduce refers to making persons known to one another as by announcement of names or by facilitating a meeting: to introduce a friend to one’s sister.

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquaint, such as: accustom, advise, apprise, enlighten, familiarize, and inform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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