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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

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

STATIONMASTER: If you’re waiting oan th’ auld reekie train, you’ll need tae ken it’s running late.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

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

I almost think she kenned what was coming.”

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

Ye kenned na whether he laughed or frowned, or promised or threatened.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

When I was a youth, also, I dinna ken if there was a person in the village, save the minister, kenned what a newspaper was.

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

"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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

Clatten com up—i' fun iv his way o' 't—gat hod o' me afooar I kent reetly whoar I was, an' flang me doon like a havver sheaf.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin

Au’m Geordie Dowie, the town bauldy, that’s as weel kent as the Provost hissell!”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various

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

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 William Alexander Caruthers

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

Judith: What’s kenning got to do with love?

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

But at last a tame raven, kenning him as he put forth his head, gave him such a severe stroke with his horny beak as put out one eye.

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

"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