"They are not just acquaintances".
They became more than just acquaintances" (female, Portland).
We may widen our network to two, three, or four hundred people that we see as friends, not just acquaintances, but keeping up an actual friendship requires resources.
At first just acquaintances, he recalled in his book, their relationship blossomed after Mr. Saxbe, never one to be shy, made a characteristically bold statement.
In one moment during the interview, he said his girlfriend had seen him at a game during his sophomore year, when they were just acquaintances.
"We grew up in the same town but we didn't really know each other, we were just acquaintances at that point," Ms. Freedman said.
There are family members, colleagues or even just acquaintances that we see daily and appreciate yet we forget to tell them.
They found that if you're a donor, the probability that your close friends are also donor is much higher than just acquaintances.
At the start of this reread, I said that the world wanted more Pennywise; in the Kingfisher, we have a creature strongly connected to that original evil, in ways that suggest the two are more than just acquaintances.
I have close to 1,000 Facebook friends -- most of whom are just acquaintances, but hey, that's the way it works -- yet I'm still able to follow most people's status updates with a daily log-in.
