unfamiliar
Example Sentences
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For my own training, I give an AI tool a passage of something I’m trying to learn––a speech, a chapter, a set of unfamiliar names––and then I close the screen and try to recall it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Take another look at that unfamiliar form you mentioned.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
During his travels from 1773 to 1776, Bartram explored regions where this species lives and documented plants and animals that were unfamiliar to early North American settlers.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
Even more voters were unfamiliar with the other candidates.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Slowly, at first, pivoting on the balls of his feet, his felt shoes made a metallic clack on the stone floor—an unfamiliar sound to me.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
