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"superficial familiarity" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to having a shallow or limited understanding or knowledge of something. It is usually used to describe a situation where someone is only familiar with something on a surface level, without any deep understanding. Example: Despite the long history of the subject, the new student only has a superficial familiarity with the topic. Another example: The politician's speech showed a superficial familiarity with the country's economic issues, revealing a lack of in-depth knowledge and understanding.
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What the media provide is superficial familiarity -- images without context, indignation without remedy.
While many Chechens have only the most superficial familiarity with the Quran, their daily lives have been profoundly transformed: virtually all women now cover themselves, drinking has been severely restricted, and any hint of sexual expression has been banished.
In this pretentious volume, Russell shows only the most superficial familiarity with progress made in the study of social phenomena or in any special field of social research, either with techniques of inquiry, or with materials assembled, or with interpretations developed... it seems doubtful that the author knows what is going on in the world of social science".
Despite a superficial familiarity, OM still poses many challenges of definition, assessment, and indications for treatment.
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The visible anxiety until the stranger in her presence settles into at least superficial familiarity.
Bella was an opera singer, and though Graham and his wife Jean used to go to Vienna for the opera every year, he knew his familiarity with the subject was superficial.
There is a great deal of misinformed, superficial, fear-based reporting and writing about firearms, often supplied by reporters who have little familiarity with the weapons they discuss, the lingua franca of gun culture, or the conception of firearms as anything more than instruments of murder.
Familiarity is.
For familiarity.
Also, familiarity.
Nothing superficial".
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