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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

What are other ways to say understand? To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

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Also participating was board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin, who said she looked forward to helpful AI applications, such as one that would help parents access and understand information about the school district budget.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

“I understand myself as a Catholic novelist, provided that I’m not only a Catholic novelist, I’m also a South Asian novelist and I’m a Canadian novelist. I don’t want to be captive to one label.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Snowflake CoWork, an AI agent that helps businesses understand and analyze their data, expanded to 5,800 accounts.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The results could help scientists better understand how one of nature's fundamental forces contributes to the formation of matter.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

He’d never remembered that moment of kindness, for he’d been too close to death to understand what was happening.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

While adversarial crowds often are a home-field advantage, Matthews understands the challenge that lies ahead but is excited to be back and playing in front of the Cal faithful.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The BBC understands that work has begun to create more cells in prisons by re-purposing existing spaces, but that is expected to take months.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

An otherwise chipper cartoonist likened her audience to a “chamber of despair” that nobody else understands.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

“He’s cautious about how he reacts. … He doesn’t want people getting ideas on whether something is good or bad because he understands others have better product sense.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

I try to explain it again, so she understands better.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“It wasn’t something that Santa Monica understood or wanted until recently.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The discoveries accumulated so quickly that physicists adopted the general label XYZ states for many of these poorly understood particles.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

He was fired in 2022 for leaking proprietary data but all understood the Pandora’s box he opened by suggesting a Google large language model was conscious.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Acme, its champions surely understood that Zaslav is only the latest of his kind.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

Jonah couldn’t tell if she really understood or if she was just prompting Angela.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Even so, understanding these high-speed effects is an important part of determining how such spacecraft might eventually work.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

That included understanding symptoms and behaviour, supporting the person living with dementia, accessing information or speaking to healthcare professionals.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Kedrosky is troubled that fixed-income investors are piling money into data-center projects backed by hyperscalers without really understanding what is happening in those data centers and whether they are sufficiently utilized.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

“It’s this very encouraging wave of reemergence and the belief and understanding that legislators have when it comes to the entertainment industry. They understand that it truly is an economic driving power.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Jason thought of the Elders at Sandy June’s and the love they freely gave him, about how understanding they’d been, and how they reminded him of his grandma.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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