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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
"Do you not ken it's a bad omen?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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, 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
But I have kenned such a power o’ mockery give great pain to others, and bring great suffering sooner or later on those that had it.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
He was nae handsome man, he kenned that weel.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora
I dinna ken what to mak o' him," said Geordie, wha kenned mair aboot the warld than mysel, as he had been three years sailing atween Dumfries and America; "he's owre ceevil by half.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Especially, ask about local varieties, from keswick codlin and worcester pearmain to cornish aromatic and beauty of kent.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019
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
Au’m Geordie Dowie, the town bauldy, that’s as weel kent as the Provost hissell!”
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
At about eight o'clock, Lamar and I sallied out to find Mrs. Hazlehurst's house in Broadway; amid music from clarionet, violin, and kent bugle.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander
Had I kent that ere I came here, I ne'er had come to thee; 15 For I might hae married the king's daughter, Sae fain she wou'd had me.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Bell: What’s this jackadandy, That you and Phœbe, both—and kenning him!
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
How could he speak out all that he wanted to say, kenning my father!
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
They reveal an especial difficulty with the kenning, a device which von Wolzogen apparently did not understand, since the entire translation shows an attempt to interpret the kenning hypotactically.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
"There's things it's best to put off kenning as lang as we can."
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
He that is ill of his harbery, is good of his way kenning.
From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Stampoy, Pappity
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