understand
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“We understand the factors that impacted Saturday’s attendance,” the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"We find ourselves, somehow, at the whim of people whose intentions we don't really understand," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
"The core of this is that some startups and their founders don't understand compliance well," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Meeting it is easier said than done because of equipment backlogs for transmission infrastructure and the complex engineering studies needed to understand grid impacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
And because of all those things, I now fully understand why the Flash has to take place.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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“We have to do more to compete to keep production in the United States. ... This bill really understands that even when that content is shot elsewhere.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The BBC understands that work has begun to create more cells in prisons by re-purposing existing spaces, but that is expected to take months.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
An otherwise chipper cartoonist likened her audience to a “chamber of despair” that nobody else understands.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“We don’t think it’s a bluff,” said Citrini in its report, but it did concede Bessent understands the value of an ability to scare investors into doing his job for him.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
From what he understands, the plant, which only has about forty on-site workers at any given time, has become a refuge for Applied Energy Services, and Southern California Edison employees.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Assuming viewers understood the history of English soccer — or even the offside rule — could make the broadcasts unintelligible for new fans who understood neither.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Several students spoke up, with some saying they understood the new ban, while others argued it was "infantilising" in a world where mobile phones had become ubiquitous.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
This boom needs to be understood on its own terms, in all of its particularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
That has long been understood to mean subject to the laws of the United States, which of course the children of temporary visitors and even undocumented immigrants are.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
I do not want it understood that the Catholic Church has advised me to make these public disclosures and confessions.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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“It’s this very encouraging wave of reemergence and the belief and understanding that legislators have when it comes to the entertainment industry. They understand that it truly is an economic driving power.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Experiencing it firsthand—walking through markets, smelling charcoal smoke and watching people cook—gave him a better understanding of how to build that depth of flavor into his own cooking.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
But experts often look to southern hemisphere countries, like Australia and New Zealand, to gain a better understanding of how the UK could be affected.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He contended that these banks were “basically getting a little bit of the gross spread revenue … in return for an understanding that their analyst would cover the company typically with a buy recommendation.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Gingersnipes and Clare exchanged exasperated looks, and in that moment, understanding dawned on Clare.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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