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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Jimbo must have understood me, or had already made up his mind to come along willingly.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls