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acquaintance

noun as in a person known informally

noun as in knowledge of something through experience

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As Coupang CEO Bom Kim sought to scale his business over the summer, Pham, previously considering an early retirement following his stint at Uber, was introduced by a mutual acquaintance, making their first meeting over video chat.

From Fortune

That’s why a picture of a new baby from a long-ago acquaintance will vault to the top of your Facebook feed, even if you haven’t seen any other posts by that person for years.

From Fortune

The slowing down of the glaciers is a private plan by a glaciologist of my acquaintance who doesn’t want to get into the geo-engineering wars.

I don’t want bloodshed or violence, and it hurts me to watch acquaintances and friends being beaten, and now I hear they’re getting ready to start shooting people.

From Ozy

So it seems like the answer is just to have a bunch of casual acquaintances to whom you can’t really feel anything terrible.

Should old acquaintance be forgot, just remember a few of the resolutions the Founding Fathers (would have) made this year.

Another acquaintance described Seevakumaran as “a creep,” who would “constantly hit on women.”

He insulted a female poet of his acquaintance by remarking “that she and her family were Jews.”

Not long ago, I mentioned the Victims of Communism Memorial to an acquaintance.

In the early 2000s, an acquaintance told Sun about the possibility of doing business in Ethiopia.

A child begins to make acquaintance with the images of things when set before a mirror.

He made the acquaintance of some courtiers, who felt or affected an interest in learning and in learned men.

By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!

It was the Town Crier, with whom, as with a brother artist, he had picked acquaintance the day before.

For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquaintance, such as: associate, colleague, companion, friend, neighbor, and association.

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

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