know it

idiom

: to be aware of something
It's wrong and you know it!

Examples of know it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Democrats and Republicans have grown farther apart — and Americans know it. Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024 The duck doesn’t know it—and who could blame it, really—but azolla may soon spread across human civilization, becoming food for people and livestock, fertilizer for crops, and even biofuel. Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024 Muslims know it as the Noble Sanctuary, where the prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven. Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024 Some of you might know it from the board game Risk. Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024 But those who didn’t watch wouldn’t know it now without reading social posts about it or news stories like this AV Club one, because there’s no evidence of it in the official video posted by the NFL after the fact. Wes Davis, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2024 Sometimes the younger ones don’t know it all the way, and things change. Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024 Rivera didn’t know it at the time, but the man auditioning her was Balanchine himself. Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024 Clement didn't know it, but just hours earlier, Cayley's mother Alison Steele and stepfather Lawrence Baitland were awakened at 4 a.m. with horrifying news. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024

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“Know it.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/know%20it. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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