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"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
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"ref": "1957, United States Congressional serial set, number 11976",
"text": "These people, these 20 or 25, were in my ken. Senator Jenner. In his what? Mr. Greenglass. My ken, my line of vision, my knowledge.",
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"ref": "1977, Roulhac Toledano, Sally Kittredge Evans, The Esplanade Ridge",
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"ref": "1999, Catherine Z. Elgin, Considered Judgment",
"text": "Since nothing in our ken differentiates knowledge from luck, something beyond our ken is introduced to do so. But the conviction that we know something is small comfort when coupled with the realization that we cannot tell what.",
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"ref": "2012, Keith McCarthy, Nor All Your Tears",
"text": "I couldn't see the funny side myself, but Tristan could; after a while he could hardly control his merriment, in fact, so that he collapsed back on the bed, continuing to chortle, more of his rather unpleasant teeth making an unwelcome appearance in my ken.",
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"ref": "2015, Brian Bates, The Real Middle Earth",
"text": "It was an intelligence beyond human ken but integral to everything, perhaps most like the Great Tao of Eastern philosophy of the same period, and it flowed like a European form of Chinese chi.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ja",
"3": "剣"
},
"expansion": "Japanese 剣",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Japanese 剣",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ken",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ken"
},
"expansion": "ken (plural ken)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "jan ken po"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The tsurugi (type of sword)."
],
"links": [
[
"tsurugi",
"tsurugi"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɛn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kɪn/",
"tags": [
"pin-pen-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛn"
},
{
"homophone": "Ken"
},
{
"homophone": "kin (pin-pen merger)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-ken.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/33/En-us-ken.ogg/En-us-ken.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-us-ken.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "ken"
}
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