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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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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

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

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

"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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