understood

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Scientists have understood this effect for years, but experimentally demonstrating how to dramatically strengthen it has remained a challenge.

From Science Daily • 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

However, it said it understood the importance of the Annan Road to the town.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Karli understood even less, but we were both so upset and surprised to hear them being angry with one another, and shouting like that.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo