Know
Know verb - To have a practical understanding of.
Look for
Look for verb - Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.
Both terms in one sentence
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Jubilee: Look, obviously we're going to look for a sneaky way in, because we know they know we're coming.
Source: Comic Book / Generation X -
While a relationship is there if you know to look for it, you only know to look because each has a single occasion where they openly say there's something between them.
Source: Manga / Rave Master -
If you don't know what to look for, you don't know there's anything luxurious about the suit itself—the man wearing it just looks really good.
Source: Simple Yet Opulent
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