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She paid sharpest attention to those in her ken, broadly defined as America, where she had the truest sense of need and sharpest eye for what would help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

"I already ken how to read and write," I pointed out as we climbed the narrow stairs I had scrambled down the day before.

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

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, 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

Ay, ay, Margate," said her auditor, when she had heard the story to an end, "it's a warning, shure aneugh; and that will be seen before lang; for I never kenned a warning fail.

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

Here I must notice Johnny Grippy, who had never been kenned to perform a generous action in the whole course of his existence.

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

"Ah, Mary," persevered her undaunted wooer, "ye ken brawly what I mean; but you surely never kenned what it was to be in love, or ye wad never jeer a body that way."

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

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

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

From The Setons by O. Douglas

Yon's a grand passage; but the fu' meaning naebody can understand wha hasna kent the thirst and heat o' a waterless desert.

From The Bushranger's Secret by Mrs. Henry Clarke

Scott alludes to the old song of the Lea Rig,— "Nae herds wi' kent and colley there," etc.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

I thocht on this, for his voice was mournfu', though I couldna understand the words; and, kenning he was a stranger in a far land, my bowels yearned within me with compassion towards him.

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

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

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

From International Short Stories English by Various

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

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