Find out and Know

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Find out verb - To come to an awareness of.

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Know and find out are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Know" instead a verb "Find out".

Know verb - To have a practical understanding of.

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Find out and know are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Find out" instead a verb "Know".

Nearby Words: knowing, known

We need the name to know when he died, but we need to find out when he died to know the name!

Source: Franchise / Neopets
Well, you don't know why of all people you were chosen, but you do find out why you were imprisoned in the alternate end.

Source: Video Game / Presentable Liberty
Averted (badly) in "The Bonding", which starts out without the Captian's log info dump, and instead we find out what's going on through Captain Picard listening to his bridge officers telling him all they know about the planet they're investigating.

Source: As You Know

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