understand
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She added: "I'd like to reassure the community that there is no wider risk to them, and we are doing all we can to understand the circumstances that led to this tragic incident."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Those changes in visibility produce the distinctive pattern of brightening and dimming that the astronomers had struggled to understand.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Erling is doing things no one has ever done on the field before, but he’s also easy for a soccer novice to understand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Just today, there was a band — I won’t say who it was — but I was interested in hearing their new thing, and I didn’t understand a word until the chorus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
It was not until I was through the farmyard gate and out into the field that I could begin to understand what was happening.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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He understands how to use his innate magnetism to charm his way through even the silliest scripts, occasionally creating a dissonance between the film and his performances that makes even the duds memorable.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
While AI can help you save money, an agent working on behalf of a company that understands personal tastes can also encourage more spending.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
I think in some ways, this botched execution is emblematic of how everybody understands now what happens in that room, but the jurisprudence and the technologies have occluded that for most of us.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
After he understands that a little bit better, he says “these are the different ways my life could go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
So I nod, but immediately my stomach starts to hurt a little, like my body understands I’m making the wrong decision.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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I told her I’d always understood the money as a gift to me, not an investment in the house or an early inheritance for her children.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Brown, a Republican, ended the two-and-a-half-week June standoff by assuring Commerce Department, Pentagon and White House officials that Anthropic understood their security fears and had upgraded its safeguards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Appearing via video link from HMP Norwich, he spoke only to confirm his name and that he understood proceedings at King's Lynn Crown Court.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Protists are among the most diverse and least understood groups of organisms on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
For the first time, he understood what the word priceless meant.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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“I told him that the second pickup game in Slovenia, what I saw from him, just understanding the game better, reading the game, I think he improved a lot in the summer,” Doncic said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
In those systems, understanding how electrons influence and scatter from one another is essential.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
After researching your book, what have you found about people’s common understanding of Rod Serling and “The Twilight Zone” that might not be entirely accurate?
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Putin received the proposals "with understanding", the Kremlin said, without elaborating on what the proposals were or the Russian president's response.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Noooo,” I wail, understanding no matter what, Caesar’s leaving.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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