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be unacquainted
verb
To undo (one's or someone's) acquaintance (with someone or something).
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Many of you may be unacquainted with Daniels.
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I'm not saying the Republican presidential front-runner is unacquainted with ideas.
This accounts for the Greeks being unacquainted with Persepolis until Alexander the Great's invasion of Asia.
And although the other two, Erica Pereira and Kaitlyn Gilliland, are corps dancers, neither is unacquainted with the spotlight.
Let's go!" O.K., that probably did not happen Tuesday night because LeBron James is completely unacquainted with fouling out and Dwyane Wade is unacquainted with traveling, since the N.B.A. stopped considering it a violation in 1981.
But anyone who thinks this is overdoing it — and that the fictional results of such preparation will tend, at best, toward a sort of "creative nonfiction" — is unacquainted with Shepard's ability to accumulate and transform specifics and oddments.
Not that Khan is unacquainted with sporting disappointment: his Jacksonville Jaguars, in their only NFL season since he acquired the franchise, lost 14 games out of 16 before parting from their coach.
There can be exceedingly few North Americans who are unacquainted with Coca-Cola, which a Swedish sociologist has said bears the same nourishing relationship to the body of Homo americanus that television does to his soul.
If Theresa May was unacquainted with Johnson's GBH-plotting past, just a horrified skim through Life in the Fast Lane would have told her everything she needed to know about his fitness for office.
During "Resolving Hedda's" 2017 premiere at the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles, where the L.A. Times described it as a "boisterous new comedy," most viewers were unacquainted with Ibsen's original.
It sells souvenirs but also, toward the back, offers gems like "Private Yankee Doodle" ($4.95), a diary, valued by historians, that was written by a Revolutionary War soldier named Joseph Plumb Martin and offers gritty details of the battlefront: "We now began to meet the wounded men, another sight I was unacquainted with, some with broken arms, some with broken legs, and some with broken heads.
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