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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

Most of which would have been beyond the ken of the most daring 19th-century Scandinavian dramatist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

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

"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

I almost think she kenned what was coming.”

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

“They were just a’ bairns thegither I thought, but I little kenned.

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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

Still I ought to hae kent him, for a' his clouted shoon and darned hose.

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

Behind her, on a sofa between the windows, is walter kent.

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

He keeps me well by sheer moral suasion. kent comes out of his room and is off downstairs.

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

He goes behind her and reads over her shoulder what she has written. kent comes back.

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

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 Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott

There are things that are wrong wi' the world that we maun all pitch in together to mak' richt—I'm kenning that as well as anyone.

From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder

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

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

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various