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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 don't ken, sir. I'm not sure I could bear it."

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

He was nae handsome man, he kenned that weel.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland

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

“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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

As she goes out walter kent is on the way to his room.

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

Wait and we'll come to a conclusion. kent comes in, an open letter in his hand. kent.   This note, sir.

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

It was well kent he was no fitting for me.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

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

You’ll scorn me, as I often scorn myself: But, kenning the worst, in my heart of hearts, I hanker ...

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

From International Short Stories English by Various

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

“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

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