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Discover LudwigThe phrase "altogether know how" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a mix of "altogether" and "know-how," which are separate expressions.
Example: "I don't altogether know how to fix this issue, but I will try my best."
Alternatives: "completely understand how" or "fully grasp how."
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I've often thought that western European socialism survived as a credible ideological alternative up until 1989 purely because of the Soviet counterexample: those on the left were able to point east and say, I may not altogether know how socialism can be achieved, but I do know it's not like this.
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If there is a slight chance that you can actually avoid foreclosure altogether, your lender would know how.
It is not altogether worthless: the Wachowskis still know how to stage an action sequence, and there are some scenes that have a quiet, mysterious beauty.
Or, if their relationships were altogether different, I wanted to know how exactly these relationships were different.
With the telephone, the expressive power of body language is lost, but with e-mail, the subtleties of voice go, too, and if you've ever tried to have an argument with your friend about some minor thing, like where to go to dinner, and ended up cancelling dinner altogether because of hurt feelings, you know how ridiculous things can get.
Usai said many other questions remained: "We don't know how many there were altogether.
How to navigate this rhetoric openly is another challenge altogether, one that I'm not sure I know how to combat other than by calling it out.
Although we know how to postpone the onset of diabetes, the resulting benefit is not altogether clear and translating the information to a community setting has been elusive.
Kids should know how to log off of an account temporarily and in cases of repeated harrassment, block aggressors altogether.
That figure dropped slightly, but we don't know how much of the drop was due to people finding full-time work or being laid off altogether.
Meanwhile, does anyone in the Labour Party actually know how to win back those crucial English swing seats, such as Chatham, Lincoln or Worcester, that stopped listening altogether?
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