understand
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"Once you understand what's happening inside the material, you can design devices to take advantage of it," Professor Qi said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
It added it had combined high-resolution satellite imagery, citizen science and machine learning to "revolutionise how we understand and monitor habitats".
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
“They are asking them, ‘do you understand my life?’”
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Instead, these courts need to read the justices’ minds and understand what they’re really saying, which is that it’s all gone.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
He’d never remembered that moment of kindness, for he’d been too close to death to understand what was happening.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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