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Sometimes, you just have to accept that you’re talking to an expert who is speaking in terms beyond your ken.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Having stakes in four of the “Magnificent Seven” Big Tech stocks might not seem like strategy beyond the ken of the ordinary investor.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

He was also recruited to civic leadership roles that were beyond the ken of politically-hobbled government bureaucracies.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

Cain watches Marcus, and the Augur’s head is tilted as if he’s listening to something beyond our ken.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Gunn explains that he wanted to allow himself artistic license, given that Jamie and Claire are well funded and Claire kens the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

The proprietors of the padding kens were on the payroll, as were the managers of "baby farms."

From Time Magazine Archive

Rebecca read steel cost sheets by sunlight and Shakespeare by candlelight, in 22 years won fame & fortune for herself and Lu kens.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Aye, it is sad. But he kens the difference yet of right and wrong.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“Aye, uncle, and every man kens fine how you have tried. But that dinna alter the truth, that we both desire at heart she may come safe.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"You seem to be kenned here," I observed when my breath had caught up with me.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

I almost think she kenned what was coming.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

I kenned the folks were fondest o' such as the Auld Hunder, Mount Pleasant, and that excellent favourite the Bangor.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

“They were just a’ bairns thegither,” she had said, “and had kenned one another all their lives.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

They will ne'er feel the loss o' the cotton-mill, and you and I ne'er kenned the guid o't.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

Especially, ask about local varieties, from keswick codlin and worcester pearmain to cornish aromatic and beauty of kent.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

Wait and we'll come to a conclusion. kent comes in, an open letter in his hand. kent.   This note, sir.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker

Whether the boat was capsised in a sudden squall, or the ship had struck her, or whatever it was, will never be kent till the sea gies up her dead!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

"Tuts, lassie, yer faither would ha' kent," said Mrs. Veitch.

From The Setons by O. Douglas

Hastie is now our member to Parliament, and you hae disgraced the whole city o’ Glasgow, by letting a business so weel kent in his name, go to the dogs.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Let her and him gang to the Cuttle Well, as Aaron and me went, kenning no guile and thinking none, and with their arms round one another's waists.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Aweel, Ellangowan," she said, "wad it no hae been a bonnie thing, an the leddy had been brought-to-bed, and me at the fair o' Drumshourloch, no kenning, nor dreaming a word about it?

From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott

He that is ill of his harbery, is good of his way kenning.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

How could he speak out all that he wanted to say, kenning my father!

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

The antiquity of part at least of this story is proved by the kenning “Hagbard's collar” for halter, in a poem probably of the tenth century.

From The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 by L. Winifred Faraday