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From ken (“knowledge, understanding”).
Prepositional phrase
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beyond one's ken
- Beyond one's knowledge or understanding.
2011 January 6, David Carr, “Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:Much of what McLuhan wrote and some of what Coupland relates are beyond my ken, but I don’t know about that “hole in heaven” stuff.