heard of
Example Sentences
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“They’ll discover their new favorite city without even having heard of it before.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
If you aren’t tempted to buy Bloom at that valuation, Bielawski says there is a parallel play in Ceres Power, a U.K.-listed company that few the U.S. have heard of.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
“I’d never heard of him, and he has a statue. But I’ve heard of Christopher Columbus. I think he deserves a statue.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Little was heard of his condition until Wednesday, when the government acknowledged he had been in hospital in the capital, Managua, since early March.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
He’d lived in the city of Muskogee his whole life and had never heard of it.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
