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• Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it anyway.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 17 July 2023
• The greater fear by those who know better is how far will this slippery slope go?
  — Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• In a post on Twitter, Crow asserts that the singer is out of step with the public mood and should know better.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
• Happy Birthday to a woman who's old enough to know better and young enough to not care.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 17 Jan. 2023
• That’s the mark of a good team, but the great ones know better than to mistake a sideshow for a classic rivalry against an old foe.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2022
• He’s just surrounded by weak people — folks who should know better but who don’t have the courage to stand up to him.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• Few know better than Smith how much this does to elevate a chef’s profile.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2023
• That said, Simon may know better this time than to pass up on Keiichi's talent.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Jan. 2023
• These Mets probably deserved better, but at the end of the day, these Mets also had to know better.
  — Matthew Roberson, Hartford Courant, 10 Oct. 2022
• It’s often overlooked by those who don’t know better — and cherished by those who do.
  — Rebecca Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
• Lots of people in positions to do something know better but refuse to stand up.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• Employees know better than the CEO how to structure their work and drive results.
  — Anni Hallila, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
• Despite being mocked by pundits who should know better, Haley is right — the race is down to two.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• In the end, in the very end, this ugly story is about one thing: simple hate, and how a Black man, of all people, should know better than to traffic it.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
• Spoelstra said those who attempt to draw out Adebayo should know better.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
• But the Americans know better than to take anything for granted.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Biden wants to brag about the economy but families know better.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Ryan Reynolds, an experienced poster and Wife Guy, should know better.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
• Even those in higher ed know better than to assume the glitz of a four-year or masters degree will sway employers for long.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Los Angeles fans know better than to bet against Hetty.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• Marines know better than most the full weight of accountability.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2023
• With an experienced team like this, UCLA should know better.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Someone in your larger social network might be worth getting to know better at this time.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• The Cowboys know better than to overlook Jacksonville with Trevor Lawrence at quarterback.
  — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
• For anyone who didn’t know better, this writeup would be quite the press release—very succinct and optimistic.
  — Joe Toscano, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Their leaders know better but have their marching orders.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Willem is an up-and-coming actor struggling to get meaty roles, and Jude is a hot-shot lawyer with a mysterious past that his friends know better than to ask questions about.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
• Like Robinson Crusoe, even locals who should know better view this other island as a blank slate for exile or utopia.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Or did the bees know better than to waste their time trying to penetrate the presumably granite-like epidermis of the Crank and Expendables star?
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• Diane’s lawyer urged the judge to honor Diane’s preferences, rather than allow them to be steamrollered by daughters who claimed to know better for her.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024