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Discover LudwigThe phrase "unfamiliar persons" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to individuals that one does not know or recognize.
Example: "In a crowded room, I often feel anxious around unfamiliar persons."
Alternatives: "unknown individuals" or "strangers"
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Indeed, most of today's users converse routinely via the telephone, even with previously unfamiliar persons at the other end and discussing unpredictable and changing topics.
Public places in which people feel comfortable conducting routine social interactions with acquaintances as well as unfamiliar persons are crucial for every community.
Visual familiarity applies, for instance, to photographs of unfamiliar persons to which the subject has been repeatedly exposed.
Previous research showed that newborns recognize familiar and unfamiliar persons when these persons had previously interacted verbally with them [33], [36].
Moreover, subsequent work demonstrated that attachment style in adults may also predict behaviors and judgments regarding unfamiliar persons [6], [7], as well as social and emotional processes in various tasks [3].
In response to a known vocal order, horses obeyed similarly to attentive (with eye contact) familiar and unfamiliar persons but they monitored much more the stranger's behaviour by turning their head and gazing at him.
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The landlady, a chambermaid, and some unfamiliar person were blocking the way to the bed.
That is the immediate result of living in fear, in suspicion of every unfamiliar person.
By 7 to 10 months of age, an infant may cry when approached by an unfamiliar person, a phenomenon called stranger anxiety.
The idea is to make this relatively unfamiliar person seem so terrifying that the public will stay in the familiar embrace of the incumbent.
Conversely, CSF OT concentration did not vary during or after negative contact with an unfamiliar person, supporting CSF OT as a biomarker of positive valence in the human-animal relationship context.
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