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Example sentences for: familiarity
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Despite the familiarity of the path-breaking ballplayer's story, critics mostly like the new biography.
), and its utter regularity across corporate and international boundaries--how all these things have become matters of mass familiarity.
' Indicative also is familiarity with pocket , originally a `measure of hops or the bag in which they were carried,' now used exclusively of potatoes, and nointer a `scapegrace or mischievous person.
The old meaning has, meanwhile, declined in social status, frequency, and familiarity.
The rationale behind referring to them as “lost” arises from the author's observation of an unfortunate state of affairs: because of an increasingly widespread lack of familiarity with the basic, structural elements of our culture—Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, literature, and ordinary historical fact—people today are unable to discern the origins of terms like aphrodisiac, Achilles [sic] heel or tendon, meet one's Waterloo, sow dragon's teeth , and hand-writing on the wall , to name a few.
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