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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

"Aye. You don't mean you ken his work?"

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

She, good soul, when the first surprise was over, said "she hardly kenned her bairn in sic a fine gentleman."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

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

“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

"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

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

She's smitten Sir Oluf—it strak to his heart; 30 He never before had kent sic a smart; Then lifted him up on his ambler red; "And now, Sir Oluf, ride hame to thy bride."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 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

"Oh, my John—my John," she said, "if ye but kent o' this, I'm sure, for a' that's come and gane yet, ye wad stretch out a helping hand to us in this hour o' distress!"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

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

How could he speak out all that he wanted to say, kenning my father!

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

Thorkelin knew nothing of the peculiar style of Old English poetry; he could recognize neither kenning, metaphor, nor compound.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

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

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson