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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

When Mani audited a course on theoretical physics, it was generally assumed that the material would be "beyond her ken", Sur observes.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

Not luxury, which was beyond his ken, but simple comfort: a wash, a shave, a meal, a bed.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

“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

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

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

“When the auld laird lived, nane kenned o’ the whereabouts o’ that bonnie fish except himsel’ and me and the gipsy Faas.

From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables

"Oh, Mary, if ye only kenned what a heart I have, and how aften I've lookit at you when I never spake a word, ye wad never bid me do that."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

The gree was born awa frae them by a perfect stranger, kenned neither to them nor to me.

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

But I never telled him sae," he would conclude; "oh, no, Saunders kenned better.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

Gin ye kent what was doing at hame, I trow ye wad look blate.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

It was well kent he was no fitting for me.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

Naething has happened but what ye a' alang kent very weel about.

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

Anyhow, ’tis kent noo, an’ there’s nae need te chew on ’t.

From The Revellers by Louis Tracy

Ay, ay; thou is a cunning lad for kenning the hours of bargaining.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott

Draupnir's beautiful blood, a kenning for 'gold rings.'

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw

Thorkelin knew nothing of the peculiar style of Old English poetry; he could recognize neither kenning, metaphor, nor compound.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

The hellicat ne'er-do-weel! to bring such a crew here, that will expect to find brandy as plenty as ditch-water, and he kenning sae absolutely the case in whilk we stand for the present!

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott

I asked, maybe a kenning sharper than ordinary.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett