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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Be open to suggestions, assistance, or ideas from colleagues and acquaintances.
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Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
An acquaintance of Olejniczak contacted investigators with the contents of a text message Olejniczak sent her the day after the killing, according to the warrant.
—Hanna Park, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
The children, too, faced a deportation order to Auschwitz, but avoided almost certain death when a kindly German farmer, Arthur Schmidt, an acquaintance of the Weber family, sheltered the kids at his farm in Worin outside Berlin.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025
The bottle our acquaintance asked about appeared to be worth more than that, save for two problems: The label was torn and had been taped to the bottle, and the owner had received it as a gift.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
An acquaintance of Olejniczak contacted investigators with the contents of a text message Olejniczak sent her the day after the killing, according to the warrant.
—Hanna Park, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
The children, too, faced a deportation order to Auschwitz, but avoided almost certain death when a kindly German farmer, Arthur Schmidt, an acquaintance of the Weber family, sheltered the kids at his farm in Worin outside Berlin.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025
The bottle our acquaintance asked about appeared to be worth more than that, save for two problems: The label was torn and had been taped to the bottle, and the owner had received it as a gift.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for acquaintance
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