familiar territory

collocation in English

meaningsoffamiliarandterritory

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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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territory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition offamiliarandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The authors begin in what is, at least for those conversant with disability studies,familiarterritory.
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This sounds arcane, but is surprisinglyfamiliarterritory.
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It wasfamiliarterritoryfor the insurgents but an extremely hostile environment for the government troops.
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It is natural that learners in the early stages of learning should feel a need to stay firmly infamiliarterritory.
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The analogy between domain and dowry and the image of the king as husband isfamiliarterritory.
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The goal was thus to attempt to reproduce in software the manipulations of the analogue studio so that composers would find ' ' themselves infamiliarterritory.
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In lessfamiliarterritory, the reader is often left wondering what might happen if a passing suggestion is pursued.
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The chapters cover somefamiliarterritory.
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As we would expect in a collective enterprise, some authors veer towards generalisation, for example by confining themselves to thefamiliarterritoryof enlightened absolutism.
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This has wide coverage offamiliarterritory, including planning and reviews, support for carers, residential and non-residential care, nursing home provision, charging for care and joint working between professionals.
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To some, this will befamiliarterritory, but when a story is told well, it is worth hearing again.
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We are in this sense at least, back in thefamiliarterritoryof the echo, with its partial occlusion of the visual.
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These are the explorers, keen to know what lies beyond thefamiliarterritory, in the shadows at the edge of the beam.
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Chapters 4 and 5 cover morefamiliarterritory, notably, the war against terror and the building of what the author prefers to call 'the late colonial state'.
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Much of the content is likely to befamiliarterritory.
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I am not going to follow her to-night over that somewhatfamiliarterritory.
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I am afraid that the amendment takes us back intofamiliarterritory.
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We were coveringfamiliarterritory; we had been there before in 1990–91 and 1995–96.
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