understand
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“We do not share that lightly, and we understand that a longer tour weighs heavily on every household, including our own,” the letter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“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
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
“When are you going to understand that you can’t make something out of nothing? You need to learn to stop watering dead things.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“We have to do more to compete to keep production in the United States. ... This bill really understands that even when that content is shot elsewhere.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
BBC News NI understands the man who died was from Guinea-Bissau, but had lived in Northern Ireland for more than two decades.
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
“We don’t think it’s a bluff,” said Citrini in its report, but it did concede Bessent understands the value of an ability to scare investors into doing his job for him.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
There are three kinds of intelligence: one understands on its own; the second discerns what others understand; and the third neither understands by itself nor through others.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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There’s a lot of anxiety right now, but if people better understood how public markets work, they’d be far more likely to invest and stay invested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
I always could see myself at that table, but I also understood that table is kind of earned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Acme, its champions surely understood that Zaslav is only the latest of his kind.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
In that moment, I understood why I’d been forced to train so brutally and intensely for my entire life.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
Lead researcher physicist Dr Sam Eriksen said it could be "the first step in understanding dark matter as a particle", but further research could also reveal that the particle is not related to dark matter.
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
I’m confused through most of my classes and have trouble understanding what the teachers are talking about.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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