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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
know . - verb nonstandard All persons, singular and plural, present form of
know .
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Examples
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And everyone in the room knows--*knows* that if there *are* no questions, this Bataan Death March can end and you can all go home.
Katie's business trip, day 2 post-doc 2006
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Every man needs help when he's a kid, needs somebody who knows -- _knows_, mind you -- to put him in the right way.
The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Yet since the Church is Divine, she knows, not merely guesses or hopes or desires, but _knows_, that _although all things come to an end, God's commandment is exceeding broad_.
Paradoxes of Catholicism Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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But what Nimbus knows, he _knows_, an 'dat's de eend on't.
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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God; and whoever doubts their certitude, the man who knows himself a son of God by faith, and has experience of forgiveness and guidance and answered prayer and hopes whose 'sweetness yieldeth proof that they were born for immortality,' _knows_ the things which others question and doubt.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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There can be no mistake about the good faith and firm emphasis -- as of a man who knows his own mind, and _knows_ that his word is true -- with which the Apostle holds up here the two sides of what I venture to call the one truth; 'Work out your own salvation -- for God works in you.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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A man _knows_ that he can do a certain thing that seems extremely dangerous, therefore he does it boldly, not because he is superlatively bold by any means, but because he knows there is no risk -- at least none to him.
Erling the Bold 1859
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"God, who knows the future as if it was already present, _knows the elect according to His purpose_ even before the creation."
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854
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Anybody that knows basketball, said former Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton, knows he's had about as good a basketball mind as anybody ever had in the roundball sport.
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What passed in that chamber, and who perpetrated that murder the Almighty knows -- _and, perhaps, Dick Robinson, if he is still alive, also knows_! [
My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. George Thompson
GHibbs commented on the word knows
Really? "All persons, singular and plural, present form of know."
'I knows, you knows, ... we knows. you knows, they knows?' I know of no use for any of those.
September 7, 2011