understand
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Example Sentences
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For Melendez-Badillo, language has become "coded for the broader sort of racialized understandings of immigrants and immigration... this sort of nationalist idea of who gets to belong in the United States."
From Barron's
“I understand finance, and I understand structured finance and project finance. That’s where a lot of the DNA is for myself and for some of the founders.”
From Barron's
In making the documentary, Sam said those who he spoke to for research told him they felt "no one was understanding what was going on, especially their parents".
From BBC
“The party has understood that it cannot design soft power in a meeting room,” said Shaoyu Yuan, an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.
In their world of Halloween town, she was the only resident who seemed to have an eye for beauty, and an understanding that the spirit of Christmas could not be duplicated.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
