familiar face

noun

: a person that one knows
It's good to see a familiar face.

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As a result, the front office moved quickly to add a familiar face to the building, signing two-time Super Bowl champion Jason Pierre-Paul after a tryout with the team. Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 In addition to Schwarber and Alonso, other sluggers the Red Sox could target include Japanese standouts Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto, third baseman Eugenio Suarez and one especially familiar face. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 Dec. 2025 Luck, now Stanford’s general manager, introduced Pritchard as the 37th head coach in program history on Tuesday, completing an eight-month coaching search that brought a familiar face back to the school that shaped him. Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025 Along the way, eagle-eyed viewers no doubt noticed that one scene included quite a few familiar names — and one very familiar face. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for familiar face

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“Familiar face.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/familiar%20face. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.

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