Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nicer than sitting in a Florentine café or Beijing teahouse, with postcards fanned in front of you to craft elegant missives to loved ones. But the attractions of sending your wish-you-were-heres digitally are harder to resist. Why queue in a dingy post office, fumble with unfamiliar coins and try to buy stamps in a language you don't speak, when you can just use your phone to take a picture of the Acropolis or the Kremlin and fire it off to anyone you like? If you don't have a phone with a built-in camera...
Playing second fiddle to hockey’s top-liners is not an unfamiliar story to the Crimson faithful—just look back to the route Oliver Jonas ’01 took to starting goaltender...
...Craig seemed more confident that Nechtem—who is typically a midfielder, but played admirably at the unfamiliar position in Harvard’s most recent contest against the Tigers—will get the starting nod from Kerr...
...look Crimson (6-4-3, 1-2-1 Ivy) relentlessly pressured the Tigers (4-5-2, 1-2-1) during the first 10 minutes by throwing its unfamiliar configuration at its opponents...
...went through the different hands—one pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush—all the terms that I’ve heard for years and years but that still sounded unfamiliar, and when he had finished explaining we were done. I had “learned poker...