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familiar

[fuh-mil-yer] / fəˈmɪl yər /




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The fear of fresh hostilities may sound familiar, given that U.S.-Iran tensions have escalated many times in the past, particularly during the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

From MarketWatch

The fear of fresh hostilities may sound familiar, given that U.S.-Iran tensions have escalated many times in the past, particularly during the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

From MarketWatch

Three vertical screens show computer-generated landmarks of 18 world’s fairs arrayed in interstellar space—most familiar from this exhibition—slowly rotating as people cross walkways between them.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Mohamed Salah, it was a familiar feeling of anguish on the international stage.

From BBC

The first begins as a familiar sort of love-in-wartime drama, with an illicit relationship between the daughter of a rabbi and a German Jewish officer.

From The Wall Street Journal