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In 2021, the department said it would not move forward with the Microsoft contract, as it “was developed at a time when the department’s needs were different and our cloud conversancy less mature.”

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

For perception can have no conversancy about the absolute since it is supersensible.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

His habitual conversancy with the world in its strangest varieties and with the secret history of character, gives him a shrewd estimate of the human heart.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)