familiarity
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“A sense of familiarity is a huge factor,” Ebner warned.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
But chances are your guard is lowered by the familiarity of the caller’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Her father Columba Mailey said "familiarity with the driver is crucial for Maisie" adding that "24 hours before Maisie starts the new term we have no clarity".
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
And yes, while the Olympics are one point of public familiarity, that’s just one small part of our collective cultural consciousness around the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He thought of his bed, of the familiarity of their couch and the scratched coffee table, and he wanted to be nowhere else.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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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