Mainstream Usage
In their book The Fourth Turning, William Strauss and Neil Howe write of 1996 Presidential candidate Bob Dole as "not a person who could grok values in the now-dominant Boomer tongue".
In an episode of Night Court, Judge Harry Stone asks what grok is. Bailiff Bull Shannon responds that it is " sudden flash of insight derived from a profound empathetic experience."
In the song "Friends", by The Police, the lyrics state that the singer will "grok your essence".
In the movie Into the Wild Green Yonder, a feature length special of the TV show Futurama, the character Nine states, "So dig this, Fry. Our commune's been monitoring the Universe's life energy for, like, a really long time, and we're grokking some super-weird junk." To which Fry responds, "Um, I don't mean to be rude, but it's kinda hard to take you seriously when you say junk like grok and junk."
In the Adventure Time episode, In Your Footsteps, Jake says, "He's trying to steal your identity. Why can't you grok that?"
In an episode of the live action version of The Tick, in response to an explanation from Arthur, the Tick responds, "I grok your mouth music mandingo."
In the book The Omnivore's Dilemma, author Michael Pollan critiques a farm raising organic chickens with unused doors to pastures, writing, "Rosie the organic free range chicken doesn't really grok the whole free-range conceit."
The Groks Science Show is a science radio program that uses the term in the name of their program.
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