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What you hate is the fact that someone opened thier mouth and told the world what anyone with a brain knew. .and more .. nick from SD
Blitzer: Why did McClellan revive the cocaine controversy? 2008
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There were no games, no questions, we just "knew."
Archive 2008-12-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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So to square the circle, they must mourn the loss of the man they "knew."
Some people say America wants change. But what makes you think that if there is change, it will be an improvement? Ann Althouse 2008
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We might call this list eclectic, except that there is a consistent pattern of bad judgment followed by an initial defense, then followed by rapid disassociation and regret that none of them were the men Mr. Obama "knew."
Ex-Friends of Barack 2008
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There were no games, no questions, we just "knew."
love and faith WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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The fellow sat there without expectations: the season was about over; the day was none too promising for such as knew.
Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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Only Douglas, for sheer impatience with the general gloom of the house, would sometimes tease her or chase her; and then the child's laugh would ring out -- a ghostly echo from the days before Lady Laura "knew."
Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885
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If this be anything it should be _wist_, the preterite of _wot_, and should have accordingly the meaning "knew."
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876
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In the discussion that followed, they were able to express what they had heard or thought they "knew."
Academic Commons 2009
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I told her father I knew she was a girl, and he would always tell me that I had a 50 / 50 shot at being correct, and after she was confirmed to be a girl via ultrasound he quipped that if I gave birth to four children and correctly predicted the gender of all four, THEN he would believe that I "knew."
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