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
By now the acquaintances had seen them and walked in, waving cheerfully.
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Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
This year, the programming looked like a party with an impressive invite list — Nicolas Winding Refn, Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-eda — but upon arrival, all the guests felt like old acquaintances tapped out of anything interesting to say.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The McIntyre siblings surf and bodysurf alongside the kids of some of Shayne’s childhood acquaintances.
—Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026
The search for the teen took on more urgency as police learned that he was dressed in camouflage and was with an acquaintance — facts that were not consistent with someone about to die by suicide, the chief said.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
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Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
This year, the programming looked like a party with an impressive invite list — Nicolas Winding Refn, Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-eda — but upon arrival, all the guests felt like old acquaintances tapped out of anything interesting to say.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The McIntyre siblings surf and bodysurf alongside the kids of some of Shayne’s childhood acquaintances.
—Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026
The search for the teen took on more urgency as police learned that he was dressed in camouflage and was with an acquaintance — facts that were not consistent with someone about to die by suicide, the chief said.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquaintance
Noun
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Visibility drives familiarity, and familiarity drives demand.—
Jeremy Fields,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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And then there’s free-agent addition John Metchie III, who has familiarity with Bryce Young due to the two of them playing together at Alabama.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2026
Noun
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For a more exclusive experience, book the Heart Reef and Whitehaven Beach Stopover that lands right on the shore for a picnic and swim.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Andriy Sirko, the chief neurosurgeon at Mechnikov, told me that no hospital in the world has more experience operating on patients with penetrating brain injuries: Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, his staff has performed roughly 2,500 such surgeries.—
Martha Raddatz,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2026
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