kenned

past tense of ken, chiefly Scottish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kenned
Verb
  • As of Thursday, police had not apprehended Sanchez-Munoz.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • He was subsequently apprehended in Chicago, IL.
    Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Whether the threat from data centers is real or perceived, communities and stakeholders are waking up and beginning to assign value to a resource that had previously been treated as free.
    Chris Morris, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Nolan’s movies are often perceived as having problems with female characters being flat compared with the male characters.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Many of us have long understood that putting your country’s main creative engine inside a techno-dominant machine was probably never going to end well for creativity.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • For reasons that aren't yet fully understood, the results sometimes differ from previous events.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Neither Cadillac nor Lincoln, both originally manufactured in Detroit, could have fathomed their legacies.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This was a scene even the most loyal Indiana fans couldn’t have fathomed when Curt Cignetti was hired to coach major college football’s losingest program in 2023.
    Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The company expects a little more of an impact in its Q2, but Cook said it’s fully comprehended in the above Street outlook of 48% to 49%.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Dominion sued the businessman in 2021, alleging that Lindell knew there was no evidence to support his election conspiracy theories, but used the lies to sell pillows.
    Aki Nace, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Their agents also knew this and assuredly would have shared that risk assessment with their clients (especially for Veesaar and Evans, both of whom are repped by The Team — formerly Wasserman — an agency that sent multiple potential first-round picks back to school this draft cycle).
    Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Yet Wall Street hasn’t appreciated that for quite a long time.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Since then, Roberts, who will also manage the NL All-Star team, has appreciated how diligent Pages has remained in his routine.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • Mostly because one of them is possessed by a dark spirit.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • Shortly before the Microsoft researchers published their CAPTCHA finding, a Stanford psychologist named Michal Kosinski had posted a paper documenting that GPT-4 possessed this capability—even though it hadn’t been intentionally engineered into the machine.
    Robert Wright, Fortune, 24 June 2026
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“Kenned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kenned. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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