understand
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"You're trying to understand something you've never thought about before. It's a crash course. It's very deep and extended and it's still with me today in many ways."
From BBC • May 19, 2026
As we are the people that work with athletes on a consistent basis, we have to understand their bodies, but we also have to understand that they win games, they lose games.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
The power and the danger of frontier models come from the same characteristic: These systems do things their builders don’t fully understand.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Scientists still do not fully understand why left-handedness has persisted throughout human evolution or how human culture may have helped reinforce right-handedness over time.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Katrien and Annaliese could not understand any more than I could Peter’s deliberately doing something that would attract the attention of the authorities.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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