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  • verb Present participle of familiarise.

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  • adjective serving to make familiar

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Examples

  • As I spend more and more time familiarising myself with the writing world, by reading the SFWA community for example, I'm puzzled to find out that writing advice is often so useless, because it is very personal.

    it puzzles me nathreee 2010

  • He was familiarising himself with a sensitive area of Lahore on the day he shot dead two Pakistanis.

    US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout 2011

  • MBC eventually replaced their staff newsletter with a blog, forcing people to use the blog and familiarising them with the blogging format

    A day at the Social Media Exchange – 1 « Using technology in the voluntary and community sector 2009

  • Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery.

    DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT 2010

  • I like the idea of kids familiarising themselves with situations, especially potentially confusing or upsetting ones, through play.

    Surveillance-tastic! « Gin&Comment 2009

  • As I spend more and more time familiarising myself with the writing world, by reading the SFWA community for example, I'm puzzled to find out that writing advice is often so useless, because it is very personal.

    it puzzles me nathreee 2010

  • MBC eventually replaced their staff newsletter with a blog, forcing people to use the blog and familiarising them with the blogging format

    2009 January « Using technology in the voluntary and community sector 2009

  • I like the idea of kids familiarising themselves with situations, especially potentially confusing or upsetting ones, through play.

    2009 January « Gin&Comment 2009

  • Could business-to-business users who start by familiarising or orienting themselves before beginning more in-depth research be analogous to the 'meaning making modes' for museum visitors - browsers and followers, searchers or researchers - identified by consultants Morris, Hargreaves, McIntyre?

    Archive 2008-04-01 Mia 2008

  • Could business-to-business users who start by familiarising or orienting themselves before beginning more in-depth research be analogous to the 'meaning making modes' for museum visitors - browsers and followers, searchers or researchers - identified by consultants Morris, Hargreaves, McIntyre?

    Nielson on 'should your website have concise or in-depth content?' Mia 2008

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