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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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Astrophysicist Professor Tamara Davis said the expanded dataset represents an important advance in efforts to understand the nature of dark energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Winemakers are trying to understand and adapt to these new customers who care more about environmental and social justice practices than about brands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

He is mindful of his mistakes and old enough to understand that it’s too late to fix things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“People didn’t understand it because they weren’t used to it. They were used to basic reggaeton,” Torres says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The fox and the rat stared at each other, Clare trying to understand what was going on, Nine trying to gauge how much Clare was understanding.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

BBC Scotland understands there are another two families with concerns over palliative care received at the Royal Hospital of Children and Young People but they do not feel ready to share the experience.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

As another gender-swapped character, Ms. Goerke is the pious Reverend, the only bardo inhabitant who understands that he is dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

This is all incredibly normal, accepted behaviour which anyone who attends a concert regularly already understands.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

"Peter Rice understands talent relations, and in a competitive market, creative talent have choices of where they want to work," Sarandos said on the call Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

She becomes a small shadow of her mother, yet it's hard to know whether she really understands the situation.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The researchers say the findings build on earlier observations of facial signals in conversation by showing that such movements do not simply accompany speech but actively shape how it is understood.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Scientists already understood that excessive double-stranded RNA could provoke potentially harmful immune responses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

But I am an apple-picking person, and my Dad was an apple-picking person, and I think he understood even then that some things are worth risking an eye for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

As if he understood perfectly, Bo slunk over to my side, silent as a mouse.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

But no matter who prevails, it’s clear that the Mizrahim are no longer simply a constituency to be courted; they have become the country’s center of gravity—and key to understanding Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The event "went off very badly", partly because the Russian had difficulty in understanding Bevan's accent, which led to misunderstanding.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"Understanding this mechanism could help researchers design and optimize future RNA-based therapeutics and vaccines by better understanding how cells respond to large amounts of RNA," Yang said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

"I was just over 20, I was probably a little too impatient, without really understanding how much I still had to learn. I wanted to write, I was reading a lot," he wrote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

There was something about seeing that rushed bullet point list, and finally understanding why it looked that way, that sent a shiver down my spine.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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