you know

You are aware, you see, do you remember, as in She's very lonely, you know, so do go and visit, or You know, this exhibit ends tomorrow, or You know that black dog our neighbors had? She was run over a year ago. This phrase is also quite often a conversational filler, equivalent to “um” and occasionally repeated over and over (as in It's a fine day for, you know, the beach, and, you know, we could leave now); this usage is more oral than written, and many consider it deplorable. [Late 1500s]

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“I started screaming because I thought, you know, something bad was going to happen to me.”

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Looking back on his youth, Lundes said, “My parents didn’t give me that attention, or that love, you know what I mean? All that, I found in the streets, by my older homeboys.”

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He felt as though everyone had given up on him and imagined what the few people who visited him were thinking: “If you want to die, go ahead. You know, we’re tired of you. You know, you don’t change. You’re never going to change.”

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“It’s such an amazing feeling, being a dad, to show her what’s right from wrong. You know, taking her to school, going to her parent conferences. You know, when she’s having a bad day, I talk to her.”

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“They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that.”

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you just don't get it you know something?

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