as in familiarity
knowledge gained by personal experience
Tiffany's acquaintance with cows is limited to a long-ago visit to a petting zoo when she was three
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Recent Examples of acquaintance
Urge friends, relatives, and acquaintances to avoid Trump propaganda outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, X, and, increasingly, Facebook and Instagram.
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Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Antisemitic hate crimes are at an all-time high; friends, acquaintances, and colleagues who used to wish me a Happy Hanukkah, Happy Passover, or Happy Rosh Hashanah have gone silent.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 Apr. 2026
Limon and Bristy were last seen separately on Thursday, April 16, in Tampa and reported missing by a mutual acquaintance the next day, according to the University of South Florida Police Department.
—Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
Mason headed to America, where Gram Parsons — an acquaintance of his through the Rolling Stones — became his gateway into Los Angeles rock.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
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Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Antisemitic hate crimes are at an all-time high; friends, acquaintances, and colleagues who used to wish me a Happy Hanukkah, Happy Passover, or Happy Rosh Hashanah have gone silent.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 Apr. 2026
Limon and Bristy were last seen separately on Thursday, April 16, in Tampa and reported missing by a mutual acquaintance the next day, according to the University of South Florida Police Department.
—Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
Mason headed to America, where Gram Parsons — an acquaintance of his through the Rolling Stones — became his gateway into Los Angeles rock.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquaintance
Noun
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Sets would be built and then junked only to be rebuilt again at considerable cost due to an overall lack of familiarity with standard Hollywood filmmaking procedures.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
27 Apr. 2026
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Yet there's a sense of familiarity, a return to their origins in both heritage and early hip-hop influences.—
Jane Mo,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Archibald has experience in all of those roles in his 23-year career in education that includes teaching 13 years in the classroom, working 10 years in administration as an assistant athletic director and coaching for all of that time.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Honma experience quickly became a disastrous one for Rose, and while McLaren could end up being the next great golf brand, his taking another chance on a brand that has proven exactly nothing in the golf space is questionable, at best.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Acquaintance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquaintance. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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