understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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Alzheimer's claims more lives each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, underscoring the urgency of understanding what drives it.
From Science Daily
A week after the fact, most people finally seem to understand that the BBC and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts shoulder the blame for this situation.
From Salon
You could spend 100 years studying it and still not understand it.
From BBC
Second, you need to have observed your team members enough to have an accurate understanding of who to approach: the whole team, one person whom you can trust, or the boss?
Over the long term, this can help build up a "pattern of life" to predict and understand activity as well as search for moments of vulnerability.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
