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We don’t have a long history with this parasite—we discovered it in the 1990s, as I understand it.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“We understand and appreciate the need to ensure requests are handled as efficiently, consistently and transparently as possible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Workplace psychologist Ian MacRae, from the British Psychological Society, says labels are fine, as long as people understand these are not permanent character traits.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

I try my best to get her to understand where I’m coming from.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

But it’s unlikely Hegseth understands or even cares about what the actual medical science says.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

SharkNinja understands it has limited power to regulate AI-generated content on TikTok Shop, according to Shah, its CCO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

BBC Scotland News understands that closure is now not expected to go ahead as planned.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The chef said he understands why people might be surprised by the price, but in addition to rent, labor, utilities, equipment, maintenance and insurance, the sandwich ingredients alone cost him $12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Any second now, they’d be throwing themselves into hugs, sobbing onto each other’s shoulders, proclaiming, “Nobody understands me but you!”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I’ve always understood Max Cady to be a poisonous extension of the male ego, dating back to “The Executioners,” John D. MacDonald’s 1957 book that started it all.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

It is also understood the Green Party does pay for some private security for its leader.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Phosphate, an essential nutrient for marine life, acted as a hidden regulator of Earth's carbon cycle for the last 60 million years, although its exact role had not been fully understood.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

“We tend to think many of these concerns are well understood and in some cases overblown,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

He didn’t crush it or make it disappear, but we understood.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

My understanding is that this is because of the lifespan of the organism: It takes a while to develop into something infectious.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

The authors found that EEA capabilities have improved markedly over the past decade, thanks to advances in understanding physical drivers of events, expanded observational data from satellites and radar, new statistical techniques and better models.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

The memorandum of understanding, which both Americans and Iranians claimed as a victory for their side, was intentionally vague, leaving much up to later negotiation.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

No document has been more examined than the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, down to the placement of commas, as if the terms meant anything to those jockeying over it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

For example, in addition to understanding the spacecraft’s automatic control panel, he was taught how to manually control the capsule in the event that the automatic controls failed.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson