understand
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The process of becoming oversubscribed isn’t hard to understand.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
When I moved here I began to understand her, to feel her.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
"The committee therefore opposes any changes until robust, independent real-world assessments have been undertaken to understand how these changes could affect local communities in practice," the letter said.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Herzl found Rothschild paternalistic and overly timid, “a decent, good-natured, faint-hearted man, who utterly fails to understand the matter,” as he wrote in his diary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Together Mr. Smit and I attempted to explain, but Father simply could not understand a person’s being called by a name not his own.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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