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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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“To get one of these top two seeds is important. And our guys understand that,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Following that dream also meant moving from Northern Ireland to London - a decision some people struggled to understand.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Paris, she added, also believed that Berlin didn’t understand that acting at scale across Europe was the only way to deter attacks on the region.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Some funds are “getting sold mainly on yield,” he noted, “and people don’t understand the risk that they’re taking for it.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

“No. The secrets he makes you keep are safe with me. I understand your fear.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The company hopes the community understands how hard it has tried to limit the damage from this disaster, Lehmkuhl said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

He cares tremendously about humanity and understands that an insolvent U.S. can’t solve our problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

BBC News understands four copies of the Dutch language edition were taken from a truck while it was en route from the Dutch publisher's printers to their warehouse.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

The BBC understands the size of the pay-off was partly to cover Lord Wormald's pension contributions as his removal from office essentially cut his civil service career short.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

“Nobody ever understands you, not with all your stuck-up words. Like, you just want to make everyone else feel stupid. You think you’re so smart.”

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

I totally understood it, because that’s often how I’ve felt when I’ve had to play the song.”

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

“Look, Jerry, look” was such a line, and we understood that everyone besides Jerry was supposed to look, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

It is understood she is the favourite to replace Thomas, who quit following an arrest on suspicion of assault, and that "very senior" Reform figures had backed her.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

In fact, it wouldn’t be fully understood until much later, when the great-grandson of two men on opposite sides of that matchup emerged as one of college football’s most promising freshmen.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

I nodded my head to let him know that I understood, but I didn’t like it at all.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"Previous experience tells me that these records could be the key to unlocking peoples'... understanding of the history of the homes."

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

“My ever increasing involvement and identification with the poor only continues to widen the gap between my obedience to religious authority and my own understanding of what my life as a Christian must entail.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

“I hope to keep making records, but I also have the understanding that I have the freedom and liberation to be able to make a record and not necessarily worry about its commercial prospects.”

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

How might this neurological understanding of dementia help those reckoning with changes in a loved one?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Because it was well recorded, both in film and in eyewitness accounts, volcanologists gained an understanding of what a blast from the side of a volcano, rather than from its top, might do.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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