know about

know about someone or something

to have information or expertise about someone or something. I know about John and what he does. I know about cars, but I can't fix this one!
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Raffles, and I did not know about you, and there was something I longed to tell you about him, something I could not tell you in a minute in the street, or indeed by word of mouth at all.
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A woman's virtue, if you wish to know about that, may also be easily described: her duty is to order her house, and keep what is indoors, and obey her husband.
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All you know about my attitude towards Lord Dawlish is what I told you on the first morning of your visit.
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Clearly, our adversaries know about this asymmetric advantage and they would be foolish not to be thinking of methods to deny us that advantage.
Global missions ... meeting the challenge
When Minnie gets behind, she cuts corners on disinfection and sterilization procedures, because that is something no one but her will know about. And, "Dr.
Minnie and Maxine
* Becoming the person people seek when they want to know about the audience (e.g., employees, shareholders, etc.).
Managing measurement costs: aligning the goals of your communication plan with the goals of the business is the first step to demonstrating value
Criticizing her 1993 speech, Dobson said, "Based on what we now know about Miss Miers, it appears that we would not have been able to support her candidacy."
Who did in Harriet Miers: opposition from Religious Right far right leaders fells Bush High Court nominee
Our mill customers, the suppliers, and unfortunately, a lot of us here do know about tragedies that have happened in the industry.
Ironing out the specifics: better and clearer communication between suppliers and mills helps to avoid problems
Other questions to consider: How much do you need to know about market and what do you already know about it?
Communication is key in getting the right appraisal
Yet the more you do know about that history the easier it is to understand why Jaiani left her native country at the age of 16, and how she had the gumption to succeed in fire United States.
On the rise: Victoria Jaiani: how a teenager from the former Soviet republic of Georgia took her chances in the West, carving out a career and a better life
What is one thing that the kids don't know about Lenny?
My three sons
How much of our reading, our courses, and our discussion groups is a way to know about our faith, a way to know about God, a way to read the menu without eating the meal?
Don't read all about it! Spiritual reading and education is big business these days. But could reading that one more book about the faith perhaps keep us from actually living it?
To paraphrase an old saying, ask not what you need to know about technology, ask how technology can teach you what you need to know.
Basics of practice management information technology
Because until then people wanted to know about the Village.
Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes
In the beginning, when we had another option, I decided on Max because I thought, "We don't understand him; let's go there." I must also say that I could never make intelligent career moves because I don't know about the galleries.
Albert Oehlen talks to Eric Banks. ('80s Then)
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