understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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God no longer spoke a language—Latin—that only a privileged elite could understand.
Mr. Shear, a New Yorker, has made a movie that has an intuitive understanding of how the city’s random vectors intersect with each other.
Nobody understands that better than Mr. Lai, 78, who has spent decades fighting for Hong Kong’s freedom.
“Anybody that sees what is happening understands why they are begging to make a deal.”
From Los Angeles Times
Among your social circle, establish what West calls “an informal understanding” that you will check on each other if one of you needs long-term care.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
