understand
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Twice weekly, he’ll bring you the insights, news and commentary you need to understand what’s happening, in five minutes or less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
By examining those changes, researchers hope to better understand how the procedure affects inflammation and other processes inside the joint.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
In his telling, our species will undergo rapid transformation once we understand what’s possible.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Emery needs his players to understand their roles and his methods before having full faith in them and he expects Garnacho to catch up.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was not the badger’s job to understand why the Afterlife had brought her to his door.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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He understands why investors would be skeptical, as AT&T’s average revenue per user hasn’t even kept up with inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
BBC Scotland understands Petrie's conviction is likely to have an impact on his pension.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
It’s slightly garbled but Grandma understands him clearly.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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One thing my dad understood that I think gets overlooked: “Star Trek” wasn’t going out into the galaxy to find aliens that looked different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Erika understood why her mother, Bambi, would want medbeds to be real.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It is understood this is likely to begin in the coming days and will involve a single British aircraft, a Voyager, based out of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
He understood that free and open markets allow “more productive use of our nation’s resources, more rapid innovation, and a higher standard of living,” as he said in 1985.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Watching them, I understood what I’d spent so much time trying to ignore: being alone was better than being with people who didn’t care if I existed.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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They were often, by this point, already convinced something big was coming that would upend our social order, if not our entire understanding of the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
So far, the company has sought to deepen its understanding of the local environment and provide technical, operational and responsible-sourcing expertise to its Ghanaian counterpart, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
We're in a very privileged position, and it's understanding that privilege and what goes along with it.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“To the degree that Republican candidates are distancing themselves, they’re understanding that they’re actually appealing to newer electorates,” Peterson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
To get her back to understanding why the rules are what they are and why he’s the one who makes them.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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