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knowing

[noh-ing] / ˈnoʊ ɪŋ /


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"They're regular people," he said, "and they just need the comfort of knowing that they're not by themselves."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The key, she says, is knowing how to harness your anger in a way that comes across as authentic.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

And plague symptoms emerge really quickly, sometimes within a day, which means less opportunity for an infected person to spread the disease without knowing.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

“You have instincts over what to do in certain situations. This is a new instinct of knowing when to challenge and instinctively within a second, oh, that’s a ball. What’s the situation?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“So Rachel gave Oliver my number on purpose. Because of the scroll. Because she knew she’d get her five minutes of fame. And—even knowing Oliver would hear all the rumors at school—she kept it going.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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