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The phrase "always been familiar" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that something has consistently been known or recognized over time.
Example: "Since childhood, the concept of teamwork has always been familiar to me."
Alternatives: "consistently known" or "perpetually recognized".
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I have always been familiar with the name Usain Bolt.
I grew up in the Middle East, so things like cardamom, allspice and za'atar have always been familiar to me.
Teaching has always been familiar to me – my mum is a preschool and kindergarten teacher – but it wasn't until college that I had a desire to enter the profession.
"We had always been familiar with Kickstarter and had seen the wild success of multiple projects, including one of our friends, so we decided to go with them.
I have always been familiar with the cultural cachet of the show the celebrity cameos, the impact on popular culture, and yes, the memes.
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Their names won't always be familiar.
In the longer term, my former teammates will always be familiar faces in the hospital, and I look up to some of them as mentors who have helped put me in the best position possible for my own future.
According to Jeffrey Saks — a rabbi and the editor of a new series of editions of Agnon's work in English, published by Toby Press — this is because Agnon assumed that Hebrew speakers would always be familiar with Judaism: its "rituals, phrases [and] concepts," as well as with the many strata of the three-thousand-year-old Hebrew literary tradition.
You should always be familiar with poverty, just in case you became poor.
You should always be familiar with the lift before transferring someone with limited mobility.
Terrible accidents have always been a familiar sorrow of farm life.
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