Example Sentences

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After the hubbub abates, Hudson says the hardest part will be knowing that it will be time to say goodbye to the character and the movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

The challenge will be knowing which of these mutations will go on to become cancer and which can be safely ignored.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2020

They’re going to chuckle lovingly, and those chuckles will be knowing, they will be “there but for the grace of” type-chuckles.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2016

Full closure for me will be knowing whether the apartment has enough bedrooms to house Noah’s four children on the weekends he has custody.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2014

You are ruining the argument, said Euthydemus to Dionysodorus; he will be proved not to know, and then after all he will be knowing and not knowing at the same time.

From Euthydemus by Jowett, Benjamin