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as in intimacy
the state of being in a very personal or private relationship
the elderly couple enjoys a familiarity that is the result of many years of happy marriage
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as in mistake
a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark
placing his hand on my shoulder was just one familiarity by the car salesman that I did not appreciate
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as in acquaintance
knowledge gained by personal experience
the restaurant critic's considerable familiarity with restaurant kitchens should stand her in good stead
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Recent Examples of familiarity
Dean makes sense, considering the familiarity Parker has with him.
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Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
However, that familiarity doesn’t necessarily increase the odds of a reunion at the coach’s new location.
—Dan Duggan, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Horror-movie series thrive on familiarity, tweaked just enough to stave off contempt but similar enough to push the same thrill-seeking buttons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
Cardenas believes that many in the audience will feel a sense of familiarity.
—Megan Fitzgerald, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
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Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
However, that familiarity doesn’t necessarily increase the odds of a reunion at the coach’s new location.
—Dan Duggan, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Horror-movie series thrive on familiarity, tweaked just enough to stave off contempt but similar enough to push the same thrill-seeking buttons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
Cardenas believes that many in the audience will feel a sense of familiarity.
—Megan Fitzgerald, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for familiarity
Noun
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Tamara Wilson portrayed Isolde with a soprano that could blaze thrillingly, but also shade down to subtle intimacies.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Sharing too much too soon can create a false sense of intimacy that feels real but isn’t rooted in actual trust, leaving you more exposed and blindsided if the connection does fade.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
3 Mar. 2026
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Yet another defensive mistake by Baylor opened the door for the Longhorns to add on.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Mar. 2026
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Find the groups without making four mistakes.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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According to Bhakta, other UT students were injured in the shooting, including an acquaintance of his who was shot in the shoulder.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Mar. 2026
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Those 66,000 people bounce around the spare bedrooms, couches and living room floors of friends, family and acquaintances.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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But when the bus pulled up to a migrant shelter in the border city of Laredo, dropping off a half-dozen families lugging bags stuffed with belongings, the stress of recent weeks tracked mother and daughter like the long shadows on that mid-February afternoon.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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Make Sure Every Item Has A Place Assigning a home for all of your belongings is another top tip of Guadron-Wyatt's.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2026
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With Israel’s borderlands in ruins and hundreds of its citizens taken hostage, the country’s voters could no longer countenance their leader’s quietism, which now looked like a historic blunder.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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In the experiments, observers consistently judged everyday blunders to be relatively harmless, even when the person committing them appeared mortified.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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Dale has state government, education, radio and television experience as well.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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The message to the departing players is to appreciate the experience of playing for your home country, and all that comes along with an international best-on-best tournament.—
Abbey Mastracco,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2026
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That feeling of marking an end of an era resonated with the actors individually, too; Sophie Skelton acknowledged her deep kinship with her character, Brianna Randall Fraser.—
Carly Witteman,
Vogue,
3 Mar. 2026
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But what absorbs him most is the intense kinship that the San feel with the elephants, to the point where, at a bonfire dance, a kind of cross-species migration of souls seems to take place.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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While minimally invasive procedures have improved cardiac care, the heart’s complex anatomy and constant motion require rigorous hands-on training to reduce procedural errors.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Keller said the key for students is learning which AI models fit which tasks, how to write useful prompts and how to check results for errors.—
Wilborn P. Nobles III,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Familiarity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/familiarity. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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