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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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“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

“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

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

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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