understand
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She sent all her atas to school along with her children because "if someone is illiterate, there are many things they won't understand."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
"There was a protest happening… people with the St George's flags around their shoulders… police lining up. She felt really unsafe. She's twelve. She didn't really understand, why would people be so cross?"
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
While I completely understand not wanting to manage people, saying that outright in an interview probably isn’t the strongest approach.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
I don’t understand why kids who are still catching frogs and wearing Yoda pajamas need to be traveling to expensive out of state tournaments like they’re AC Milan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
He’d been too young to understand how ugly he was.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"Now there are rules... laws that protect us. Maybe the maramba understands that, so they do not bother us too much anymore."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin said she understands the county’s position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Laos has yet to confirm any charges but the BBC understands authorities there will hold a press conference later on Friday.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But it’s unlikely Hegseth understands or even cares about what the actual medical science says.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
No one understands her tough little heart, her courage.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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It is understood The Eagles want a deal worth a minimum £60m for the 26-year-old and have started looking at potential replacements, with Ausburg's Chrislain Matsima among the players monitored.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Deputy Labour Party leader Lucy Powell said Sunday Burnham's mayoral experience away from the London centre of government meant he understood the "bigger, bolder measures" needed to deliver on Labour's election manifesto promises.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kuhn, Schiller writes, understood “the tension between the social so-called nothingness of old age and its vibrant realities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
If indigenous Martian life exists, even as microscopic organisms, introducing Earth-based life could destroy it before it is ever fully understood.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
He told me he thought I understood that this is how the Resistance works.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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That’s good news for fund managers with understanding investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Prices had rallied in the early hours to fresh one-month highs, as U.S.-Iranian fighting further disrupted the recovery in supplies that many had anticipated when the two sides agreed to a memorandum of understanding.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
"If we want to conduct a thorough assessment of low-frequency sounds and infrasound, we first need a better understanding of how sensory systems process low-frequency sound and infrasound," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Julian Fellowes and “Downton Abbey” really did a number on our common understanding of the upstairs-downstairs social dynamic.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Jack gasped, suddenly understanding who the man in green was, and what might be happening.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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