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  • adjective having become familiar.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of familiarize.

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  • adjective having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment

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Examples

  • When those are consistently the responses by the "caregiving surround," a term familiarized through Self-Psychology to mean empathic based caring or lack thereof as in "non caregiving surround" experienced by the developing, helpless infant they become internalized into a solid core which that person can always return to and buttress themselves up during times of let down, hurt , disappointment and physical and psychic injury.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. Mark Goulston 2011

  • Barring that, Sage Rosenfels, 31, has experience, and his time in Houston familiarized him with the West Coast offense.

    Vikings' plans stuck in mud until Brett Favre makes up mind 2009

  • TONY: It's people like this guy that helps you out in the law library and get you familiarized with the different legal books and terminology and writings that really helps out a lot for those who want to utilize it.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • TONY: It's people like this guy that helps you out in the law library and get you familiarized with the different legal books and terminology and writings that really helps out a lot for those who want to utilize it.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • Q: In recent years, the concept of “hoarding” has gone mainstream; people have familiarized themselves with the term through popular television shows like Hoarders, Clean House, and Clean Sweep.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • So far, we have familiarized ourselves with Quiroga, Capula, Tzintzuntzan, Patzcuaro, and Santa Clara del Cobre.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • Li Xiaojia: Need to be familiarized with Hong Kong market Affirms the contribution of Chinese capital agents

    Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: Say No to CCTVB 2009

  • So far, we have familiarized ourselves with Quiroga, Capula, Tzintzuntzan, Patzcuaro, and Santa Clara del Cobre.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • So far, we have familiarized ourselves with Quiroga, Capula, Tzintzuntzan, Patzcuaro, and Santa Clara del Cobre.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • People “took death calmly,” Ariès stresses: “they were as familiar with the actual dead as they were familiarized with the idea of their own death.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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