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as in understanding
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as in scope
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as in to fathom
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Recent Examples of ken
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
For that reason, or for reasons beyond the ken of a public-high-school boy from Kansas City, Missouri, about all a male needed in those days in order to be brought along to a débutante party by some legitimate invitee was a tuxedo and a pulse.
—The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
How pigeons get enough calories to stay alive and healthy until spring is beyond my ken.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
Many of the items had been disabled by departing U.S. troops or are beyond the ken of Taliban fighters to operate.
—Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2021
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Noun
What had been beyond the ken of my comprehension even into adolescence was a nuisance for this individual in their elementary school years.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
For that reason, or for reasons beyond the ken of a public-high-school boy from Kansas City, Missouri, about all a male needed in those days in order to be brought along to a débutante party by some legitimate invitee was a tuxedo and a pulse.
—The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
How pigeons get enough calories to stay alive and healthy until spring is beyond my ken.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
Many of the items had been disabled by departing U.S. troops or are beyond the ken of Taliban fighters to operate.
—Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ken
Noun
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She was met with a horrifying sight: her son, bleeding and mortally wounded.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Take a walking tour to see sights like the historic Santa Barbara County Courthouse (the view from its clocktower is hard to beat), or visit during Fiesta, an annual, multi-day fête that celebrates Santa Barbara’s heritage with song, dance, a rodeo, and more.—
Chelsee Lowe,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Rather, given Cascadian ecology—the primary focus of Carr’s images—understandings of her imaginative creations might also be constructed irrespective of nation: an artist seen primarily in relation to her place, itself her subject.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Apr. 2025
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Dragonfly, if successful, could revolutionize our understanding of how life might arise elsewhere in the solar system.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Last year, for example, the mission team shifted the scope into one-gyro mode after yet another of the devices failed.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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This identifies patterns in scope, team composition, timelines and customer feedback to reveal success or failure predictors.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Furious race to the finale With the 4 Nations break in February forcing a condensed NHL schedule that has had the Wild playing on a mostly every-other-night pace for the past six weeks, Fleury cannot fathom how rapidly the end of the ride is approaching.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
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These prints in the dirt have been around longer than my mind can fathom.—
Megan Stringer,
Axios,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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TikTok’s success has reshaped the social media landscape, forcing competitors like Meta and Google to pivot their strategies around short-form video.—
Lisa Setyon,
CNBC,
26 Apr. 2025
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In 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, cable news, newspapers and radio still dominated the media landscape.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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One particular question the researchers wanted to answer was whether the influence of caffeine on gray matter was a result of the drug’s effect on sleep, as it has been shown that sleep deprivation or disruption can lead to acute reductions in gray matter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Feb. 2025
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Social engagement mitigates cognitive decline and enhances gray matter in the brain.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For enterprise users, Canva has expanded its ambit to include access management, Secure Single Sign-On integrations, and bulk content creation tools like Magic Studio at Scale which auto-generates campaigns using data templates.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The issue before us is whether his mere claim of extraordinary harm justifies this court's immediate review, which would essentially remove the legal issues from the district court's ambit before its proceedings have concluded.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Section 301 tariffs—levied on imports from nations the U.S. perceives to be engaging in unfair trade practices—also pile on top of those.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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The 1980s brought an interest in the Necker cube, an optical illusion in which a two-dimensional drawing of a cube is perceived as having three dimensions and two possible spatial orientations.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Ken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ken. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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