unfamiliar

Example Sentences

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A subcontractor unfamiliar with modular construction might bid a project higher than they otherwise would to compensate for the uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times

For Africa's leaders, who for years have been arguing that they should be dining at the top table, it was not an unfamiliar analogy.

From BBC

Darren Stewart, coroner for Suffolk, said different schools using different safeguarding information management tools "may result in a risk to life due to teachers being unfamiliar" with new systems when they changed jobs.

From BBC

Such topicality is what drew Edgar Miramontes, leader of CAP UCLA, to the show, despite his admittance to being largely unfamiliar with the world of video games.

From Los Angeles Times

And over the last few weeks, Miller has found himself in unfamiliar territory - a behind-the-scenes operator suddenly in the national spotlight, whose words and actions are being scrutinised.

From BBC