knowing

Example Sentences

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“Where Claude consistently stands out in independent evaluations is what researchers call ‘calibration’: knowing what it doesn’t know, and saying so,” says an Anthropic spokesman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Fisher looked after her family and worked long hours in healthcare during the Covid-19 lockdown, but after retiring found herself "not knowing anybody".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Mr. Trueman contends that the loss of belief in man’s sacredness, depending as it did on a belief in God, occasioned the descent into confusion we constantly regret, without knowing quite why.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Maybe it was the underbelly of all of the bravado and power-seeking—some desire to counter all the validation with the humiliation of knowing that, deep down, he’s just a revolting little worm.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Elisha Kent Kane had been gone about fifteen months when he wrote those words in August 1854, not knowing how he’d ever get home.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock