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
An investigation revealed the suspect to be 21-year-old Speciale Sanders of New Bern, who fled the crime scene in a vehicle driven by a 25-year-old acquaintance, officials said.
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Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
Wasserman was long presumed to be an mere philanthropic acquaintance of the vile and very well connected Epstein (who died in mysterious circumstances in a NYC jail in 2019), the massive document dump by Donald Trump‘s DOJ in late January revealed a carnal 2003 correspondence with Maxwell.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Rivas returned home within days of the email being sent, an acquaintance of the family confirmed to CNN.
—Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
After five weeks of testimony from psychiatrists, police, neighbors, acquaintances and family members of the victims, the jury of seven men and five women took less than two hours to convict serial killer John Wayne Gacy of killing 33 young men.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
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Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
Wasserman was long presumed to be an mere philanthropic acquaintance of the vile and very well connected Epstein (who died in mysterious circumstances in a NYC jail in 2019), the massive document dump by Donald Trump‘s DOJ in late January revealed a carnal 2003 correspondence with Maxwell.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Rivas returned home within days of the email being sent, an acquaintance of the family confirmed to CNN.
—Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
After five weeks of testimony from psychiatrists, police, neighbors, acquaintances and family members of the victims, the jury of seven men and five women took less than two hours to convict serial killer John Wayne Gacy of killing 33 young men.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquaintance
Noun
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Lee might have foreseen the appeal of Norris’s peculiar blend of Okie familiarity and hyperbolic badassery before Norris did.—
Chris Klimek,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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But this was another contest that illustrated the growing familiarity with the manager’s system, as Kostas Mavropanos shone in the middle of a combative back three, while Mateus Fernandes brought defensive tenacity behind an energetic front three.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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While the senator comes to the position after more than a dozen years in Congress, and with the management experience of running an expanding family plumbing business in Oklahoma, he has not been seen as a key force in immigration issues.—
Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2026
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This creates a seamless control experience, where machines respond instantly to human actions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Acquaintance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquaintance. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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