familiarity

Example Sentences

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Recency bias leads investors to project recent gains forward, while familiarity bias causes them to overweight what they know best.

From MarketWatch

If my lack of familiarity with computers is strange to him, he doesn’t show it.

From Literature

That classic blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and allspice, with a touch of sugar, seems to be the extent of most Americans’ familiarity with warm spices.

From Salon

Many similar ideas have come and gone over the years, he added, and he does not expect the capsules to appear widely on British holiday parks, with many consumers favouring familiarity.

From BBC

“It is an added layer but it’s really just the familiarity,” McVay said of playing the Seahawks three times this season.

From Los Angeles Times