understand
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We’ve spent years teaching machines to understand human behavior.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
For days he suffered nightmares as he struggled to understand how he got hacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
"I can't describe how different it felt and it was a real shock to me to understand this is how normal people function, and not to accommodate pain and fatigue into everyday life."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
I could not understand how Mutti could be like this.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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He understands how to keep viewers vigilant, how to shock them and startle them as soon as they think they know where he’s headed.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The BBC understands a government meeting next week will provide further details to local authorities about this funding.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Novack generally shuns them but understands it is a personal preference for those who can afford it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
I think in some ways, this botched execution is emblematic of how everybody understands now what happens in that room, but the jurisprudence and the technologies have occluded that for most of us.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
"Good," says Helmuth, but he understands Karl's fear.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Nevertheless, the discovery gives scientists a new anatomical pathway to study and a possible explanation for processes that have remained poorly understood for decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The findings add to a growing body of research portraying Neanderthals as resourceful humans who understood and exploited the natural materials around them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
I told her I’d always understood the money as a gift to me, not an investment in the house or an early inheritance for her children.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The private communication to those with links to the playing staff at City has been equally as emphatic, it is understood.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He watched Gingersnipes for some indication that she understood.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"This gives us a whole new framework for understanding these diseases and a potential target for therapeutics," said Dr. Gupta.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
After researching your book, what have you found about people’s common understanding of Rod Serling and “The Twilight Zone” that might not be entirely accurate?
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Putin received the proposals "with understanding", the Kremlin said, without elaborating on what the proposals were or the Russian president's response.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
He says a lack of understanding of how to support adopted adults resulted in the delay in him getting tested.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Kennedy had ordered the resumption of underground testing of H-bombs in September, and he wanted a better understanding of the dangers of fallout.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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