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The phrase "alone knows how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that only one person or entity has the knowledge or ability to do something.
Example: "In matters of the heart, she alone knows how to mend a broken spirit."
Alternatives: "only knows how" or "is the only one who knows how".
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God alone knows how many Incas were slaughtered by Pizarro.
Anyone who works alone knows how crucial that can be for mental stability and creative productivity.
But those two missed birdie putts are sickening me, so God alone knows how they'll be eating away at his soul.
God alone knows how this Ryder Cup is going to end, it's a textbook definition of ebb, and also a fair crack at the word flow.
In that novel, the protagonist's mentor, a German-accented bacteriologist named Max Gottlieb, stands beside his test tubes and his microscope and declares, "He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows".
Growing increasingly delusional, Ed moves from buying expensive gifts for his wife and young son (Barbara Rush and Christopher Olsen) to the conviction that he alone knows how to cure the ills of the world, and even the universe.
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Let alone know how to pronounce hippopotamus.
Do children really need to meet the parents, let alone know how they died?
"They alone knew how to produce the effects that Tiffany cherished," Mr. Eidelberg writes.
Eastwood long ago gave up celebrating men of violence: the mysterious, annihilating Westerners and the vigilantes who think that they alone know how to mete out justice.
When John Elkington helped set up a consulting company called SustainAbility in 1987, few people had heard of the word, let alone knew how to spell it.
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