- past tense form of understand.
- past participle of understand.
understood
Example Sentences
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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
Even though Bass comes from a political tradition of not wanting to criminalize the unhoused, he said, she understood her voters include people wanting to move homeless people off the streets.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
I lived for these moments, this tight connection with someone, the growing sense of understanding another person—and being understood.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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