ken
noun
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Definition of ken
(Entry 1 of 2)
ken
verb
kenned;
kenning
Definition of ken (Entry 2 of 2)
chiefly Scotland
: know
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Examples of ken in a Sentence
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In short, if Trump is playing 3D chess, Pelosi must be operating in some more sophisticated double-digit dimension that’s so beyond the ken of regular voters that none of us can possibly comprehend it. — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, "Beyond Pelosi," 24 July 2019 True mobility is something beyond the ken of most machines, explains Hod Lipson, a professor of engineering at Columbia University. — James Vincent, The Verge, "Boston Dynamics robots are preparing to leave the lab — is the world ready?," 17 July 2019 But practical considerations aside, Slofstra has shown that there is, mathematically at least, a way of assessing a fundamental feature of the universe that might otherwise have seemed beyond our ken. — Quanta Magazine, "The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games," 5 Mar. 2019 An honest broker trapped in a wicked game, Marshall was in the end whipsawed by cultural and political forces beyond his ken. — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, "‘The China Mission’ Review: The Man Who ‘Lost’ China," 3 May 2018 That may not really be Scott’s ken, but there’s something insistent about All the Money in the World’s story that isn’t quite adequately addressed. — Richard Lawson, HWD, "All the Money in the World," 19 Dec. 2017 Only Madame Merle is a Jamesian creation beyond Eliot’s ken. — Henry James, New York Times, "Letters to the Editor," 8 Dec. 2017 Unscathed (for reasons beyond my ken) include baptisia, clematis recta, and of course the sturdy-as-stone conifers. — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, "Blundering Gardener: This week’s worry? Bugs and blight," 17 June 2017 Fixing its flaws has been beyond the ken of the nation’s two major political parties, which scarcely know how to negotiate anymore. — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, "Why Obamacare is still the law of the land," 2 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ken.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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