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knew

American  
[noo, nyoo] / nu, nyu /

verb

  1. simple past tense of know.


knew British  
/ njuː /

verb

  1. the past tense of know

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Example Sentences

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"What happened in Abu Dhabi, everyone in the world knew something had happened there - whether they were into F1 or not," says Wolff.

From BBC

He knew roughly what time the King would emerge, because he was due to attend an event that afternoon at London Fashion Week.

From BBC

The Brian that I knew is very much living and breathing in these songs.”

From Los Angeles Times

This is an obvious upgrade, since it always seemed odd to stream the awards a day later, once everyone already knew the winners.

From MarketWatch

But even before that, city officials knew that getting it done would require extraordinary feats of physical, economic and political engineering.

From The Wall Street Journal