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Educational and child psychologist Dr Sasha Hall, who's mum to a three-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, says the first thing to understand is that this scenario is "completely normal".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the time, I didn’t understand what she was trying to do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"People need to understand that...there's serious consequence for these types of things," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

I understand the logic of spending pretax IRA money first and converting money to Roth, but I’m not sure where that fits in for us.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Soon after, Carl Wernicke found another area on the left temporal lobe that controlled the ability to understand speech.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Morgan says it understands why the market is not yet willing to pay a higher multiple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He understands how to keep viewers vigilant, how to shock them and startle them as soon as they think they know where he’s headed.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

While AI can help you save money, an agent working on behalf of a company that understands personal tastes can also encourage more spending.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Miller-Perkins said she "understands trust has to be earned" and expects to be judged on what her office delivers.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chandresh has an inherent flair for the unusual and curious; he understands the power of atmosphere.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Stupnikov understood a central paradox of his situation: The safest place for turncoats like him was in Ukraine—close to the troops and country they left behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But even while she understood it, she didn’t necessarily see its wisdom.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pharmacist Paul Irvine said he understood that women "are concerned" but urged them to speak to their GP or local chemist who could advise them about alternatives.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Jackson violated Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, which applies to “any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship,” the NFL said in the release announcing the suspension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

I went to their cot and pleaded with them—though I didn’t know whether they understood German or not.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Zacharia passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, a test of a candidate’s understanding of legal and professional ethics, before she sat for the bar, said the person with direct knowledge of the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sometimes our rational understanding of life and death bumps into a seemingly impossible presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

We can be fairly certain that any cooperation between the museum and the film production came with the understanding that no actual security mechanisms would even be hinted at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods” is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen