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comprehension

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Other species would be able to think about and solve problems in ways that are outside our space of comprehension.

The TI-84 Plus CE makes comprehension and mastery of math and science topics quicker, easier, lighter, and brighter with color graphing and a slim design.

Even today, chiaroscuro remains a powerful tool of discovery and comprehension.

Below are some illustrations of its lack of comprehension—all, as we will see later, prefigured in an earlier critique that one of us wrote about GPT-3’s predecessor.

It certainly won’t help identify life beyond our own solar system, which could be completely beyond human comprehension, like the sentient ocean of plasma that the writer Stanisław Lem imagined in his 1961 novel Solaris.

It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.

To be clear, what Peterson (allegedly) did is abhorrent and almost beyond comprehension.

To do so in a Salvadoran prison defies comprehension and inspires respect for their grit and determination.

Nothing defeats my powers of comprehension like the deliberate harm of a child.

This is nostalgia as a recording exercise rather than a lesson in empathy or comprehension.

She has embodied in her work a modern comprehension of old legends.

It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time convention.

This is given in the next few pages, and it will be found to be easy of comprehension and interesting to a surprising degree.

The mysterious letter was handed round our circle in succession, and seemed equally beyond comprehension to us all.

To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirees was too "heavy," too far beyond his untrained comprehension.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to comprehension, such as: apprehension, awareness, apperception, capacity, cognizance, and conception.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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