understand
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In offering not just the data, but also AI-driven systems to organize and analyze it, they promise to make their intelligence more accessible for a government hungry to understand what’s happening around the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"We know bill clarity has been a particular source of frustration, which is why we have launched a programme to redesign them, so they are easier to understand," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But "we are Irish people who understand colonialism," Beoga said on Instagram.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
I think my job is to get people to understand why they’re making the choices they’re making, even if they don’t agree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
How do I make this police officer, a normal, regular person, understand that things aren’t the way Dad frames them?
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The BBC understands the company owed tens of thousands in unpaid prizes to its customers before it stopped trading.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
As a mother herself, she understands the value of relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"Western intelligence understands a great deal about China," says Sam Olsen of Sibylline.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
"The National Intelligence Service currently assesses that Kim Ju Ae is being groomed as the successor and understands she has a younger sibling of unknown gender," the agency said, reaffirming its conclusion on succession.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
What parent, holding a newborn, ever fully understands how quickly a baby turns into a kindergartener?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Education, properly understood, is a practice in humility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"These winds were thought to be contained within the galaxy, but our study revealed that the force is immensely more powerful than previously understood."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
That arrangement was initially understood by most people involved, including the British government, as a temporary expedient to avoid ethnic and religious conflict.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
I understood that accepting Parkinson’s didn’t mean I had to surrender to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
And the tree told me something that my heart understood, but it wasn’t in words.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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"This work represents a major step forward in understanding how aging reshapes the human genome in brain cells," said Nathan Zemke, Director of Single-cell Genomics at the Center for Epigenomics at UC San Diego.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Building relationships and understanding how an organisation operates is equally important," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"There are strong signals that Washington and Beijing share an understanding of frontier risks," Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council, wrote recently.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
No, we aren’t doomed, but the models are advancing more quickly than our understanding of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
After that something must have come over Eisman, for he stopped looking for a fight and started looking for higher understanding.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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