How to pronounce “acquaintance” in English

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Germany he'd had four grand Tours of Europe before he was 30 he had a rangeof acquaintance extending from Japan to Scandinavia to Russia to South America he was anExplorer he was um such an expert biologist that sometimes during his presidency the Smithsonian would send

seeing it that way, and it's gradually becoming less and less like a solitary exploration, which is actuallymy acquaintances are not so much people who like maps as people who are not good with maps, so I often

exclamation points. Everything about him was accelerated, his eating, his thinking, his climbing, his praying.When acquaintances opened their arms for a hug, they received a handshake.

Those very same people will then relay the tale of consumer woe to an average of 16 friendsand acquaintances and getting re-aggravated every time they do it, expending incredible time and effort in doing it and resolving nothing. So, do you see the paradox? We voiceour complaints to everyone except the people who can actually resolve them.

So one of the-- last year there was the earthquake that took place on the 25th of April,and there was an acquaintance, a friend of mine from Google, Dan, who was part of that expedition.He and I had met, and we had worked with each other to give him advice, things that he might want to do,

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We went through different-- finding different-- then you'd find the right-- and then the guitar player-- and then the guitar player would leave.But we made the acquaintance of these two brothers who became our patrons, and they started putting a little bit of money into us, and they gave us a place to rehearse.And the group identity kind of formed itself in this nightclub.

is this tiny fraction of all human scientific knowledge. Even if you just look at other types of genetic data, the situation is much more patchy. A biologistof my acquaintance who's done a lot of open source work. He approached me after a talk and his comment was that he'd been sitting on a genome foran entire species for more than a year. So that's a whole species of life whose genome is undergoing bit rot on his hard disk somewhere purely because his

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But it's not going to actually develop a deep friendship.It might develop an acquaintanceship.Yeah. I mean, it's largely a book for business relationships, but also there's kind of a manipulative aspect

Actually, speaking of placebos, you write about that a little bit in your book and speak to, I think, the value of--And to take those acquaintances and make them into deeper friendships-- we need to think about time and vulnerability.

It was a plague that involved 100 witches, a number that grew to 307 or later to 500.When friends and acquaintances came before them, those authorities doubted not the girls but their own friends.

I was pretty open with my friends, honestly, my close friends at least.With just casual acquaintances, maybe not as much, and not always as open with my teachers, but Ithink I was open with the people I really cared about and who I felt would just like me for me.

our other family members, our other friends, and our other colleagues. I mean, let's be honest.Locker room acquaintances are more likely to hear what your spouse did to annoy you than your actual spouse. Now sadly, all this effort in complaining to everyone doesn'twork. And what it does do is convince us that well, complaining doesn't work so why try?

I got a friend.We got acquaintances. There are many levels of people that are associated in our lives, that's the way it works.It takes a village to exist inside of life.

These models produce the sense of acquaintance, both with those qualities and with our awareness

and was chatting with an acquaintance of his.

But they had a mutual acquaintance on Facebook who said, you guys look weirdly similar-- like, same freckles even.

And then we have a woman acquaintance of ours.

The first was a branch that an acquaintance of mine had.

and I had a new acquaintance tell me that there was someone out there that

deep, reveal your feelings.This is how we get from those acquaintances into deeper friendships.Just to put the time thing in context before we dig into vulnerability a little bit, 60 hours, you said, for a light friendship.

How many of your friends and acquaintances are taking drugs illegally?" Not sure why they answer that question correctly.

And you see two of your acquaintances.

And then we've just been Twitter acquaintances since then.

And I certainly drew upon my acquaintanceship with him over those months on my portrait of Darwan.

And Nikos and I were actually acquaintances through a mutual friend who works with us and does-- all the amazing tap handles

And on it went--fifteen texts from distant acquaintance, as well as an actual friend or two.

Likely, that doctor acquaintance in Amsterdam was also part of the LO.

is many years ago I got a phone call from an acquaintance who didn't even know me really well she got my number

I have quite a huge network of friends and acquaintances in the food world.

Some I knew more like the way you are acquaintances with people who do the same job you do, because you're always reading each other's work.

And the guy I came across through mutual acquaintances in the business, a guy named Corey Powell.

you want to go help these Jewish friends or even acquaintances, try to help them hide, if you get caught, what happens to you?

"A few days later I ran into one of my few acquaintances at the gym and asked him if he could shed some light on this floppy shorts policy. 'You can't wear floppy shorts,' he

If I ask you about a particular trait, and I say, is this true of you, or is this true of your close friend, it'llactually take you longer to respond for a close friend than for an acquaintance, because your brain needs to disentangle "is this me or is this them"because, again, this idea of our self overlapping with them.

"Early on during my first pregnancy, a female acquaintance off mine told me, 'You better hope she isn't a girl 'cause she'll suck the pretty out of you.' I sort of laughed. Sort

We know that we live in these local clusters of friends and acquaintances, but we also seem to be able to connect anyone anywhere in just six steps.

Lots of Americans, lots of their celebrity acquaintances from California.

And as an adult, I had boyfriends and acquaintances, and I just thought, shouldn't these relationships be enough?

the momentum going. And because I had made acquaintances, now friends, and now even more now, good friends, with Pete,

seeing it that way, and it's gradually becoming less and less like a solitary exploration, which is actuallynot through the internet, but through acquaintances, so this is actually the influence of the internet, and various people who make up an imaginary everyday life It's not like the number of

He's going around, different acquaintances throughout the small town area and go, "Hey!

I wouldn't call him a friend, he's an acquaintance." That's a weak tie.

The only thing is that Carnegie wrote that book largely for business contacts and business relationships.So it's good for the early parts of the relationship, for making an acquaintance, but we actually need to go past that if we want to deepen and buildlong-term, strong friendships. That's interesting.

You bring these friends and these friends, because you're the mutual acquaintance.

They're your network. They're your weak ties that you maybe met through an acquaintance that can help you open doors for new channels.

What I might have done is found a friend, an acquaintance, perhaps someone in this room, a faithful reader of one of my books.