understand
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She added: "We understand this incident has caused concern within the local community, and I encourage you to speak to local officers."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He said that some errors in his early academic work were because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to understand information.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Researchers at the Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, set out to understand why.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
He has been receiving private instruction to understand his role of blocking specific defenders and adjusting when linebackers blitz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Do not let go of my hand, understand, cher? Do not let go.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
BBC Sport also understands that the intern involved, Will Salt, is set to be appointed to a permanent analyst role with the club since the controversy.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ryan Lucas, aka “The Pickled Guy” on social media, understands this firsthand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Segura continued that he’s not the type of guy who’s an “open book” with his personal life, and that he understands the public’s interest in their divorce, whether they are trolls or heartbroken fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Fields said he understands the college recruiting grind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Everyone understands and plays by the rules, which took a long time to decide on.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
Although he understood Opel's need to remain competitive globally, he worried that a strategy of cutting German engineering expertise could eventually "come back to haunt them in the long run".
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tisa Wenger, a professor of American religious history at Yale Divinity School, said religious liberty has long been understood as “an all-American ideal that many Americans are very proud of.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Asked if he understood that he could face life in prison - he replied, "yes".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is a secret code that cannot be fully understood by outsiders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the two celebrities had more in common than most people understood.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Violence has significantly decreased since the signing of a US-Iran memorandum of understanding in June on the broader Middle East war and a US-sponsored framework deal between Lebanon and Israel later that month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
As it turns out, Sumner played an invaluable role in this math breakthrough despite not understanding any of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Our friends over at the Slate podcast Slow Burn are good at taking events that we think are settled history, then unlocking a new understanding of those stories through interviews, archives, and fresh analysis.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
"It can be quite lonely... with society not understanding the impact it has," says Annalisa de Carteret, a pet loss support manager at animal charity Blue Cross.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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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