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Contractors were hesitant to work with unfamiliar materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
However, they lost the ability to learn that an unfamiliar flavor was associated with receiving calories.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Jerry was unfamiliar with most of Swift’s work.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Bowen also said longer journeys for appointments were more common and older patients were "not really comfortable" driving to hospitals in unfamiliar areas.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
In the late fifteenth century, as European explorers sailed to unfamiliar places, their actions and beliefs were guided by the Doctrine of Discovery—the idea that European nations could claim the foreign lands they “discovered.”
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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