understand
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“I know and understand the seriousness of the situation I find myself in today,” Woods said in a statement in March.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I understand that meaningful atonement is not achieved through an exhibition, institutional recognition or a single public gesture,” Galliano said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
If a client wants to buy, he tries to understand what’s motivating the desire.
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
Katrien and Annaliese could not understand any more than I could Peter’s deliberately doing something that would attract the attention of the authorities.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“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
BBC News understands that an Amazon delivery facility based in the industrial estate has not been directly impacted by the fire, but staff have been evacuated as precaution.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
There’s Olive, 12, from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose goal is to sell 8,000 boxes and who already possesses the polished ease of someone who understands how to speak to an audience.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Nobody really understands what it’s like to go through something like that until you’re living it,” said Jake, 34.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The helicopter is indeed correct. It is important that he understands what to look for once he is in the air,” Guardian says.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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Talks with Meghan are understood to be in the early stages, but the details of the discussions and any role she might be offered have not yet been revealed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“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
Acme, its champions surely understood that Zaslav is only the latest of his kind.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
He told me he thought I understood that this is how the Resistance works.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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The understanding is that any permanent move for a midfielder would only happen in January or next summer.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
I’m particularly interested in understanding the trade-off between paying taxes today at what may already be a relatively high marginal rate vs. potentially paying higher taxes later.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Because scientists have recently found that microglia are involved in neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, our findings get us a step closer to understanding what makes human microglia special in the context of brain diseases."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
That once-wide chasm of understanding has narrowed, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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