understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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It is a highly engineered system whose behavior under stress is well understood.
And coming from a dead-end town in deindustrialized Pennsylvania in the ’80s, the Stains were perfectly able to understand the context of the lyrics.
From Salon
The UK government has identified a legal basis which it believes can be used to allow UK military to board and detain vessels in shadow fleets, BBC News understands.
From BBC
He added that the president understood Canada's position.
From BBC
If the ongoing scientific debate "derails that effort to try and understand if they're bad for us, that's not helpful", he said.
From Barron's
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