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unstrange

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Unstrange (verb) means to make something seem more normal and familiar.

verb

To make something seem more normal and familiar.

"When I was with you, I forgot about Mum and it made me less strange. It unstranged me." — Julia Prendergast, The Earth Does Not Get Fat (2018)

"Most specifically, to make visible is to unstrange what was once unknown into a series of knowable components, which the viewer's eye can then use to identify parts as one builds the whole." — Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storying the Media World (2021)

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