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understanding

adjective as in accepting, tolerant

noun as in informal agreement

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People get an approximate social understanding and that seems to work pretty well.

Jalisa Washington-Price, vice president, political and advocacy, iHeartMediaJane Mayer’s book gave me a deep understanding about the problem I wanted to fix.

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Then, follow-up with why you grouped the ones that set off the same search results and are part of the same topic, for more understanding.

Although he wasn’t working for the co-op at that time, Miltenberger said, it is his understanding that the hospital wanted to help keep competition in that marketplace.

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The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how different approaches work or fall short.

Nothing made Groucho funnier than having this Margaret Dumont around not understanding the jokes.

Understanding my own dreams had a lot to do with getting me off the juice.

As she discussed her understanding of the voting rights campaign and how she planned to recreate it, I grew more relieved.

My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.

Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.

I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.

Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.

The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.

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On this page you'll find 276 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to understanding, such as: compassionate, considerate, empathetic, forgiving, generous, and kindly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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