acquaintance
Example Sentences
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After the U.S. government shutdown began, with controllers required to work without pay, he said five U.S. controller acquaintances messaged him asking him about Australia.
In 2000, he came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies at Brown, where acquaintances say he struggled to adjust.
Copperfield’s lawyers have previously said he was an acquaintance of Epstein but not a friend.
This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, Hebrew-school classmates and, it sometimes seemed, any passing acquaintance.
Artists asserting Jewish identities may also have only slight acquaintance with their history or significance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
