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Six example sentences with know-how, each labelled with its topic.
The recipe card lists every ingredient, but the know-how for folding the dough lives only in her grandmother's hands.
Cooking
Two founders had capital and a factory but no know-how, so their first thousand circuit boards came out unusable.
Startups
Anyone can buy the same lens; the know-how to light a rainy street at dusk takes years to build.
Photography
The old mainframe still runs because one engineer has the know-how to read its logs, and she retires next spring.
Technology
Tuning a harpsichord takes know-how no manual provides: you learn by ear, over years, which strings drift first in damp weather.
Music
The cathedral's repairs stalled because the know-how for cutting the vault stones had died with the last master mason.
Architecture
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