Discovered
Discovered adjective - Discovered or determined by scientific observation.
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Known and discovered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Known" instead an adjective "Discovered".
Known
Known adjective - Apprehended with certainty.
Discovered and known are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discovered" instead an adjective "Known".
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- George Formby was well known for Getting Crap Past the Radar, so the only way we're certain this isn't deliberate is that LSD was only discovered in 1943 and wasn't widely known until years later.
Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Music - Then, 300 years later, a division of the espionage corp Spyglass, known as Progenitus, discovered that the healthcorps had discovered cures for everything and were greatly inflating the prices, they made it public.
- Hundreds of years later, Olan's writings are discovered, and Ramza's name is finally cleared, and his deeds are finally known to the world.
Source: Bittersweet Ending / Video Games
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