understood

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Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is known to be a tough negotiator and is understood to want more than the £105m Arsenal paid to sign midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham in 2023.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

For the past two decades, their entire careers have played out in parallel, their greatness most easily understood in comparison to each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

“Within technology, semis and memory-related hardware stocks have had the best earnings revisions by far, but that is well understood by markets,” he adds.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

But it’s a history that must be retold to be understood and appreciated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

He understood now how difficult it must have been for Pili to choose.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova