understand
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Rather, let’s hope people will be able to relate to it and be empathetic about the story and realize for themselves, understand for themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
“And it’s only an unfortunate circumstance of this huge epidemic that we were able to get samples and look at chains of transmission and really understand what the virus is doing to people.”
From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026
“I was relying on Reddit forums to understand what was happening to my body,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
It’s not trivializing this summit or missing the point, I would argue, to understand it as first and foremost a semiotic spectacle, conducted through language, symbols and signifiers.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Recollections were only ever used to understand a soul’s destiny, and that Recollection had been his.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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