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know

[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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"But I was happy to know I wasn't crazy. Something had happened that day."

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

"It was a moment for me where, you know what, there's no halfway in this," Teng told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

I know plenty of you forking over thousands for business class do it solely for the solitude, space and sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Polling in primary elections can be particularly difficult, because it can be hard to know who will actually show up on election day, said Christian Grose, a USC political science professor.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Accident victims are often too shaken to know what happened, so Dr. Williams turns to Phineas's workmen for the story, but Phineas insists on speaking for himself.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

But with only a single photograph she knows she can't be sure.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Mourinho knows that anything less than a league title will be considered a failure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Gen knows the exact measurements of her salad order and is strictly forbidden from eating any bread.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

Comedian Kelsey Cook knows it all too well, both as a stand-up and a world champion foosball player.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Joey has no idea yet how influential doctors will become in her life, but she knows this doctor is important to her.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

I knew it was time to move on to something else.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Helen Richardson-Walsh knew Olympic gold was theirs while observing the Dutch players' behaviour in the tunnel before the game.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are expected to question Bejar about Meta's practices around safety and growth, and whether the company publicly misrepresented what it knew, according to a court document.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

As a veteran Boeing worker says, “If you knew what a screwdriver was you were hired.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

She knew those things didn’t matter to me, but she also knew I was desperate for a distraction.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In the coming season, Carson also revealed that she will hit the dance floor with comedian Guillermo Rodriguez, the Mexican talk show personality best known as a sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Traditionally known for his strike-zone control, Tucker’s chase rate has been up this season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

LFB said the cause of the fire was not yet known, but firefighters tackled a blaze at the same facility in June.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

In the run-up to the state funeral Tuesday for the man known as “Boss Zhu,” who died last week at age 97, security tightened across Beijing and elsewhere in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The Jesuits are widely known for their focus on social justice and human rights, as well as a devotion to theology, missionary work, and education.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"It's an open wound. It doesn't heal. They have no rest not even knowing if their relative is dead or alive," she tells us.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

“For me, the biggest success is that I finished my career knowing that I couldn’t give much more,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

I gave a knowing nod to the guy at the counter, as if to say: This isn’t a big deal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Especially knowing full well that all that interrogation could ever reveal was a bottomless shame that nobody—and certainly not themselves—could atone for?

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Nor has he ever seen a great black-backed gull face to face, which keeps him on continuous guard should he find himself in close proximity with his archenemy without knowing it.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el




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