familiar with

idiom

: having some knowledge about (something)
We are familiar with the situation.
I'm not very familiar with that area.

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Brier also hopes that listeners who may be familiar with her now-beloved online character will also appreciate the resonance of the audiobook. Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025 McCann is very familiar with playing in New York in addition to playing in the American League East. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 What Ross thinks of Trump 2.0 Perhaps no individual is more familiar with Trump’s penchant for tariffs than Wilbur Ross, who served as Commerce secretary for all four years of Trump’s first term. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 29 Jan. 2025 Jim Acosta, the former White House correspondent who now anchors the 10 a.m. hour on the venerable cable news channel, is set to exit the company, a source familiar with the move confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for familiar with 

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“Familiar with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/familiar%20with. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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