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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of acquaintances in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of acquaintances in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of acquaintances in a Sentence

  1. John Sandblom:

    The saddest thing that I hear, almost without exception, from people all over the world is that family, friends and acquaintances desert them.

  2. Assyrian Proverb:

    who utters words of searing truth among friends; will soon find who his acquaintances were

  3. Nick Adams:

    That's how it's been - a loose network of transgender people who have these databases of friends and acquaintances. Otherwise the casting system is just not set up to search for them.

  4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

  5. Penelope Fitzgerald:

    It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

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