heaven knows
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He’s one of baseball’s best young players, he raked the Dodgers for a 1.084 OPS in the World Series, he was everything Aaron Judge was not, and heaven knows the Dodgers can afford him.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
“Moonshot” might inspire others to devote themselves to the hard work of making effective vaccines — heaven knows we need them for diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and beyond.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
After heaven knows how long, they made their way home, with George driving “at no more than 10 miles an hour” all the way back to Esher.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2020
Each merits that level of creative consideration, and heaven knows it's long overdue.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2020
That’s what I call a peroration—though heaven knows where Douglass’s hosts would have been looking as he delivered it.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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