familiarize
verb (used with object)
to make (onself or another person) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
has familiarized
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present perfectof familiarize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Covid-19 pandemic has familiarized the world with the word “spillover,” which means when microbes in the bodies of animals spread into those of humans.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
Wells said he has familiarized himself by studying film of the new league.
From Washington Post
He cannot find the time to master them now, but he has familiarized himself with the career of Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a phenomenon with which a succession of later frontiers has familiarized us.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Then followed all those strange scenes of levity and blood, buffoonery and heroism, which the history of Parisian revolutions has familiarized to the imagination, but which, nevertheless, have an inexhaustible interest.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
