understand
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Her brother helped her understand that she didn’t have to achieve the title — she’s always been gay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"It's going to happen, I think, more quickly than people understand."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Watch the video above to understand how the industry is experimenting with technology that could change how music is made, performed and experienced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some leaders want to slow down until we better understand the risks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Clare sighed, knowing it was something he’d never understand.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Williams knows what Ogwumike’s career has meant to the league, but she also understands what comes next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He understands why investors would be skeptical, as AT&T’s average revenue per user hasn’t even kept up with inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The company hopes the community understands how hard it has tried to limit the damage from this disaster, Lehmkuhl said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Stormont's justice and health ministers have launched a joint review of the legal framework on trials of the facts in the wake of the Donaldson trial, BBC News NI understands.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
From the silence, I know everyone understands what he means, too.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
One thing my dad understood that I think gets overlooked: “Star Trek” wasn’t going out into the galaxy to find aliens that looked different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The problem is that these trends are not very well understood, either.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Erika understood why her mother, Bambi, would want medbeds to be real.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It is understood this is likely to begin in the coming days and will involve a single British aircraft, a Voyager, based out of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Watching them, I understood what I’d spent so much time trying to ignore: being alone was better than being with people who didn’t care if I existed.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
If he then betrays that understanding, Beijing will feel a strong sense of betrayal that seriously damages the relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
They were often, by this point, already convinced something big was coming that would upend our social order, if not our entire understanding of the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
She said she hoped the vest would give people a "better understanding of what women are going through".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The governor said he was “reluctant to impose rigid reporting requirements” on “this critically important digital infrastructure” without understanding the full impact on the businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
I’m already shaking my head, impatient myself at his lack of understanding.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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