familiarize
verb (used with object)
to make (onself or another person) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
have familiarized
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present perfectof familiarize.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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Measured on that scale, scientists have familiarized themselves with the coronavirus at lightning speed, partly by accelerating changes to this process that were already underway.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
Fans have familiarized themselves with her raffish sensibility and lacerating insights into how our culture portrays women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2016
As officials envision the system, new drone owners would have to register their purchases online and confirm that they have familiarized themselves with basic guidelines for where drones can fly and under what conditions.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2015
But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious—he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past is a proper field for the imagination."
From Time Magazine Archive
His son, however, who should have familiarized the true name to his ear, had then been dead for twenty years.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
