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Meanings of human ken in English

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Usage of human ken in English
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It's been seventy years that ai-builders have promised to surge beyond human ken.
Existence
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For she always had been in touch with something outside of human ken.
Way Station
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For four months they had been absolutely lost from human ken.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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It was an elemental scene, something way beyond human ken.
Perdido Street Station
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Paul, with his bride, had vanished from human ken; Rose, a shattered illusion, gone too.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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For the union of divine and human is itself divine, and therefore clear beyond human ken.
Quiet Talks on Prayer
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Above the mold, and bring to human ken
Gathering Jewels / The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam o...
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He disappeared from human ken for several days.
Kenny
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This blood-stained gold may lie hidden beneath the soil of Mariposa, but it is beyond human ken.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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Would you see the Eyes once seen by the witch-woman, who fell blasted out of human ken?
The Thing from the Lake
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The place of writing, and the date, quite beyond human ken, so frayed and stained was the upper margin.
The Statesmen Snowbound
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There are rumors, among those who know the lore, of lost vitalities: powers that have passed out of human ken.
Servant of a dark god
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When, and under what circumstances, life comes first into human ken, can not affect His lessons of trust and fairness.
Paul Faber, Surgeon
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Melville, as he always does, began to reason of Providence and futurity, and of everything else that lies beyond human ken.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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Could he have lost his head, rushed across the city at once to confront the middle-aged villain, and then-disappearedfrom human ken?
Jason: A Romance
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At any rate he vanished from human ken about midday, and no living witness can tell what he did until about half-past two.
The Invisible Man
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Human ken across language varieties
United Kingdom
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