comprehension
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AI’s progress in math is now giving us a peek at a world beyond our comprehension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Tony tells her that he’s going to be a famous writer, before challenging her comprehension of a few five-dollar words.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
And Mikhail Fiksel’s looping systems architecture and sound design, while beyond my technical comprehension, added to the unique magic of a score that is discovering itself in real time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The findings suggest that important cognitive abilities, including language comprehension and prediction, may not depend on conscious awareness.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The questions covered the standard junk that they test you on to determine if you’re not an idiot: Reading comprehension.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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He may also be rushing through the text and not monitoring his own comprehensions.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2021
Reed and Wooten will be tasked with improving hitters’ comprehensions of technology-driven approaches and overseeing new catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s resurgence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
For this reason one's pronunciation is likely to be understood, because no two persons pronounce it exactly alike, and the natives' comprehensions have been trained in a good school.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
From the moment when he recognized the nail-studded door till he put down the last of his mother's letters, his comprehensions had flowed outward in widening circles.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
"Why, you're duller than you used to be," I thought to myself, and wondered how I could have suspected, in those days, subtle depths and mysterious comprehensions.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
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