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  • In the Stoa the concept of concord was defined as knowl - edge about common advantages.

    CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

  • It would seem that the gain of one kind of knowl - edge is sometimes balanced by the loss of another.

    Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

  • When Nestor's rich experience of life is described as “he knows dikai and mentality better than anyone else” (Od. 3. 244), he is credited with a knowledge of the different ways of people, and dikai seems to be used in exactly the same sense when we are told that the Cyclops lacks this kind of knowl - edge (Od. 9. 215

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

  • "They are picked for their coruscating wit, keen insights, deep knowl.. bah, she's on to me."28th over: England 110-3 Trott 50, Bopara 39 Another match, another fifty for Jonathan Trott.

    England v South Africa - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

  • Sufficient knowl - edge will not come from slides with little more text than a comic strip.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem 2010

  • It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowl - edge of London.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowl - edge was not that of other mortals.

    Sole Music 2010

  • "I knew you were needin 'something, dear," said Mudge knowl-edgeably.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Now, also, he remembered odd things Nepe had said, indicating her knowl - edge of what she was about to do.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • But perhaps he can take comfort in the knowl ... digg

    Peter Carlson: Protesters: Use Your Shoes 2009

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