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understanding

[uhn-der-stan-ding] / ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋ /






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‘People are slapping the FDE title on sales engineering without really understanding how Palantir did FDE or why it worked so well.’

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

Institutions such as the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum preserve specimens for decades, allowing new insights to emerge as scientific understanding evolves.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“My focus was on not understanding war and hatred and bigotry,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

They seemed to be genuinely grappling with the administration’s arguments about why the long-accepted understanding of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

From information I have overheard, I have developed an understanding that someday, perhaps someday soon, I will be put together again.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga