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

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

His mother understood he seemed to like his sister’s acoustic guitar, so she suggested he take some lessons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Anyone who ever lost a cat never understood the cat was probably still around, just prowling in another part of its territory.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith