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27 Jan 2021
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What does now-familiar mean?
sentence I saw : "Setting my bag next to me.
I quickly take the seat next to now-familiar figure."
What does now-familiar mean?
sentence I saw : "Setting my bag next to me.
I quickly take the seat next to now-familiar figure."
sentence I saw : "Setting my bag next to me.
I quickly take the seat next to now-familiar figure."
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27 Jan 2021
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It means that it's familiar to the person now, so the figure used to be unknown to them but now they have some experience or have encountered it before so they are familiar with it now. It's just a way of expressing that something has recently become familiar.
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It means that it's familiar to the person now, so the figure used to be unknown to them but now they have some experience or have encountered it before so they are familiar with it now. It's just a way of expressing that something has recently become familiar.
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