- present participle of understand.
understanding
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Dawson's own understanding of grief was shaped by the stillbirth of her younger sister when she was eight years old and learning that for many years her mother blamed herself for the child's death.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Mr. Marriott expresses concern about the end of reading, but a more accurate understanding is that reading changes over time, and students and others need to be shown how to read different kinds of texts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
These receptors have played a central role in understanding how crops recognize and defend themselves against blast disease and other infections.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Threets discusses healthy ways of understanding and processing complicated and overwhelming emotions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
He’d had such trouble understanding that when he was a little kid.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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