The phrase "acquaintances across" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to acquaintances that are located in different places or contexts, often implying a broader or more diverse network of connections.
Example: "I have made many acquaintances across various industries during my career."
Alternatives: "connections from different" or "friends in various".
The narrator's friendship with Leo gives him access to a wide range of acquaintances across the strictly enforced class divisions of a theoretically classless society.
A system which began in the late 1990s with entrepreneurial crooks or gang masters in countries such as Libya and Tunisia supplying their own citizens for seasonal labour in Italy and Spain has since developed into a vast supply chain - some of it managed by organised crime syndicates but much of it consisting of chains of individuals and acquaintances – across north Africa.
I can sprawl over three seats and put my shoes on the seats, I can holler to my acquaintances across the car and I can bring six-packs of beer, especially on Fridays or game days, and I can spill the smelly stuff everywhere.
And that small group has expanded over the last five years, to where I now have an extended community of hundreds of friends and acquaintances across the D.C. area and beyond... all of whom do their part in holding each and every other person accountable.
And he is by far at his best when he is able to pretend that this isn't the case, as if he were simply chatting up an admiring acquaintance across a dinner table.
On my first trip to New Mexico some years ago during a pause in the dancing at Santo Domingo Pueblo, I waved excitedly to a new acquaintance across the plaza.
If he and the others spotted an acquaintance across the dining room they would send to their table glasses of the rare wines they were drinking, like an '85 Sassicaia, a widely collected wine from the Tuscan coast, or a '61 Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle, a legendary wine from the Rhône Valley.
Their acquaintance ripens across the courtyard, and "Two Lovers" takes its humble place in a line of movies, headed by "Rear Window" and "In a Lonely Place," which bloom in awkward spaces and tight corners.
In "Myth" the acquaintances and flirtations across social tribes and graduating classes are a constant reminder of these divisions, and sometimes of their permeability.
Most of it is falling on deaf ears, but it has also led to some acquaintances being made across the great political divide.
After carefully screening Volpe's lifestyle and acquaintances, the investigators came across some suspicious suicides that occurred around 2000, as well as four deaths that happened between 1998 and 2004.
