familiarity
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The familiarity took Meriem Lamtahaf by surprise at first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The researchers also suggest that younger people's greater familiarity with digital technology may make it easier for them to encounter harmful online material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
And at a time when nostalgia is driving much of TV programming, the style’s familiarity may be a feature, not a bug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
There are practical attractions to Spain - climate, lifestyle and, for many South American players, linguistic and cultural familiarity - but the appeal runs deeper.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Intellectual familiarity bred a slow, glowering contempt; in a few months, they were barely on speaking terms.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
It is not, mercifully, a reboot of the original and iconic series starring Andy Griffith, but fans of that “Matlock” will find tonal familiarities in this one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
The courts in the early British colonies of Connecticut and New Haven ultimately indicted at least 34 women and men for the crimes of witchcraft and familiarities with the devil.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
Yet in “Jobe’z World” many of the departures from daily familiarities are minor, fussy, and stepwise rather than daringly disjunctive.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2019
None of these episodes are bad, but they lack the magic trick that is St. Aubyn’s prose, replacing the books’ singular mix of high style and bleak substance with the energetic familiarities of genre.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
We have built up a repertoire of such gestures, such familiarities, between us.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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