understand
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Example Sentences
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To understand Britain’s crisis of democracy, and how it both resembles and differs from our predicament in the Land of the Free, we need to back up a bit.
From Salon
If you’ve ever skied in the afternoon light, when it’s difficult to see any articulation in the slope, just white everywhere you look, you can understand how having those points of reference would be helpful.
From Los Angeles Times
“I walked out understanding that this was the split personality of my life,” Newsom writes in “Young Man in a Hurry.”
From Los Angeles Times
"I think just a bit, obviously older, more mature, got a better understanding of my game," Banton said, asked what he is doing differently this time.
From BBC
"It's going to only expand, and so you just need to get the word out to people," so they understand "how often they're going to be targeted", he said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
