familiar face

collocation in English

meaningsoffamiliarandface

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familiar
adjective
uk
/fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us
/fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, ...
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face
noun
uk
/feɪs/us
/feɪs/
the front of the head, where the eyes, nose, and ...
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(Definition offamiliarandfacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When does the inner face advantage infamiliarfacerecognition arise - and why?
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His is the comfort of an old andfamiliarface.
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For a vulnerable witness, afamiliarfaceis important.
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We soon realise if onefamiliarfaceis no longer here.
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People give them to a friendlyfamiliarface; it has nothing to do with service.
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Neither the family nor the patient is looking for afamiliarface.
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His was afamiliarfaceon our television screens in news bulletins at that time.
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It is not unlikely that he made so many references to the natural law school simply because this was thefamiliarfaceof jurisprudence to his students at the time.
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They are haunted by the thought that they may look up one day and see afamiliarfaceagain.
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There is a likelihood with a multi-partner practice of patients seeing many faces rather than onefamiliarface.
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During her dreams, afamiliarfacebegins to surface.
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His was afamiliarfacein the tea-room.
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It has not changed one iota from the oldfamiliarfacethat we knew and, in a way, some of us even loved.
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He is afamiliarfaceon television screens, participating in protest programmes or spirited debates.
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He meets many goblins and becomes afamiliarfacearound the goblin village.
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Though never a star, she was afamiliarfaceboth on stage and screen.
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By the age of 11, he had become afamiliarfacethroughout the acting community.
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Okay, just cast in a commercial and thereafter became afamiliarfacein advertising.
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The club acted quickly to fill the void and asked afamiliarfaceto take over.
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As a result, he is afamiliarfaceand name statewide.
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Singa soon became afamiliarfacewith regular appearances in community events and advertisement campaigns.
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At the time he was already afamiliarfacein studios.
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The right hemisphere fusiform gyrus is more often involved infamiliarfacerecognition than the left.
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He never achieved stardom, but was afamiliarfacein small roles in film and television.
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Older male childhood he so cute, the boy play many movie should lookfamiliarface, background music and also lead.
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