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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

What are other ways to say understand? To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

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I didn’t understand a lot of this world, but I did grow up on Wonder Woman.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

He still doesn’t understand that his polygraph flex makes him more twerp than Top Gun among those he is supposed to be leading.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

"What people don't understand is they're so good when they come out on tour these days," Nordqvist said.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocated for a coordinated slowdown of AI development to better understand the risks arising from the technology's capabilities.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

I can’t let him think that Zara’s more important to me than he is, and while she might be annoyed at first, she’ll understand that this is necessary.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

As a mother herself, she understands the value of relief.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Despite all the plaudits, Jackie has always been slightly perplexed as to why the show has made such an impact, but understands how watching their journeys has helped some people make sense of their own.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

"The National Intelligence Service currently assesses that Kim Ju Ae is being groomed as the successor and understands she has a younger sibling of unknown gender," the agency said, reaffirming its conclusion on succession.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

For her, it’s not just about someone who understands that rents are high or that groceries are expensive, but about a candidate who understands how destabilizing all those things can be.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

I love that no one else here understands it.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Delo is understood to have been back in the country since last year.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

"Alzheimer's disease cannot be understood one layer at a time," said Jian Ma, the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology who led and supervised the study.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Rather than retreat into antiseptic corporate language, it followed the safety message with another language its customers understood: cheap Taco Bell.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Yet every day, people continued rebuilding financial operations because they understood what was at stake.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

And without my ever saying anything, I knew she understood all my own fears, about Papi, about the bombers that might come any day now, about the war.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Amid the outcry, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Saturday for AI companies to "pace the frontier" -- or coordinate a slowdown in the technology's development -- to allow a better understanding of the risks arising.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

“If we’re not tracking and not just understanding the numbers, but understanding the why behind the numbers, we have no ability to respond,” Knight said.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

There is now a growing understanding of the need for respiratory protections and decontamination to help prevent certain cancers that are more common for firefighters.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

"Understanding how gluons behave inside nuclei is therefore essential to understanding how matter itself acquires its mass and structure."

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Because it was well recorded, both in film and in eyewitness accounts, volcanologists gained an understanding of what a blast from the side of a volcano, rather than from its top, might do.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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