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[noh] / noʊ /




Usage

What are other ways to say know? To know something is to be aware of it as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking.

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After her fatal accident, the movie shows a stricken Chin wrestling with his career path: “I don’t know if I find it justifiable anymore,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“I think it’s pretty humble. I want to get, I don’t know, Shake Shack for dinner once a week.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

But the final result shocked Rhiannon, and she said: "It was one of those really jarring moments where I thought I don't know who that person is."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

"We know that many of you around the world share in our mourning, and we will be following up on plans to recognize and celebrate her incredible life and legacy."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I don’t know what I would’ve done if I’d lost you.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Meaning, so long as every voter knows exactly how to defeat the game, all will be well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

For shareholders, the decisive measure is how much more cash Amazon can earn from the orders it already knows how to win.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

"It was so intrusive. I was so upset. He knows I would have never said yes to that," she told police.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

So you can trust that when he calls Bill Maher a “complete and total loser,” he knows what he’s talking about.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

‘Krukoslik knows these parts better than anyone,’ said Fin-Kedinn.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Chin grew up in the only Chinese family he knew in Mankato, Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

He knew as a documentarian he wanted to include the footage that shows how Nelson died.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

When my husband and I bought our home, we knew we were making concessions: the neighborhood, the proximity to friends.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

And he knew he wanted to work with Henderson, his animator friend, on those homunculi.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Seeing no one I knew, nowhere I could squeeze in, my mood threatened to dive again.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

During a recent interview with the financial influencer Haley Sacks, who is known as Mrs. Dow Jones, the plastic surgeon Ryan Neinstein said he prescribes them to patients.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Mr. Ocker explains how the village of fewer than 10,000 residents once known as North Tarrytown became a real-world Sleepy Hollow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Previously better known as an aircraft engine manufacturer, the pivot follows its 2025 acquisition of the flight controls and actuation activities of US-based Collins Aerospace for $1.8 billion.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

But he told the jury he had not known they were "in fear."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

For Kindcreek Road passes through a neighborhood that’s been known as an “Apache rancheria” for over 150 years.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

But we can panic less knowing their powers are constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

John David Annett and JJ Haley, Corona del Mar. Annett sometimes throws the ball up knowing Haley will find a way to catch it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

“I don’t think so, none of the evidence suggests so, but if they do, we have no way of knowing it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

"To read about a medical scandal knowing it could have been stopped was upsetting," said Redvers, "because concerns were raised appropriately and leaders knew about it".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Couldn’t do anything but cower with Wolf in the hollow, knowing he was too close to the gap -just two paces away -yet powerless to move.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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