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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

"I ken who 'a's taking it to, I just don't ken where."

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, 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 'll no deny she was a bra sauncie woman, and kenned weel to make a haggis wi' an ape's head and shoulders."

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

I never kenned a lad that I entertained a higher regard for than Thomas Elliot.

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

Though I don't mind at the moment, I maun hae kenned your forebears in days lang syne.

From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens

A thoughtless word does great ill whiles, but I doubt this has done most ill to his ain cause, if he but kenned it.

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

These things were inexpressibly painful to her; she loved approbation; the society and sympathy of "kent folk," whose traditions corresponded with her own; but her hand was on the plough; there was no turning back.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

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

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

And weel he kent that ladye fair45 Amang her maidens free; For the flower that springs in May morning Was not sae sweet as she.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

"An' fat the better wad you be for the kenning o' this, man?" said he.

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

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

"There's things it's best to put off kenning as lang as we can."

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott

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