understand
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He’s betting that as more people understand what’s at stake, they will keep showing up — even if they are planting trees for a future he’ll never see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Diana Defries, who successfully campaigned for a state apology for forced adoptions, said greater access to records could help families understand what happened in the homes.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Like a doctor the conservator needs to understand the case history of the building in order to make a correct diagnosis and to prescribe the correct medicine or therapy,” Mr. Warrack says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
If you want to understand how much their faith in Jawahar really cost Kelce and his other investors, consider some basic math.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
How could I explain what I did not understand?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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However, the BBC understands that there are different rules depending on teams, with, for example, investment bankers in the office for five days per week.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The company hopes the community understands how hard it has tried to limit the damage from this disaster, Lehmkuhl said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He cares tremendously about humanity and understands that an insolvent U.S. can’t solve our problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
As a mother herself, she understands the value of relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
There are three kinds of intelligence: one understands on its own; the second discerns what others understand; and the third neither understands by itself nor through others.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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I totally understood it, because that’s often how I’ve felt when I’ve had to play the song.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Look, Jerry, look” was such a line, and we understood that everyone besides Jerry was supposed to look, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is understood Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott, Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly and Everton's Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall are also among the names selected in Tuchel's extended list.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In fact, it wouldn’t be fully understood until much later, when the great-grandson of two men on opposite sides of that matchup emerged as one of college football’s most promising freshmen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
No one did get Twitch’s meaning exactly, but they all understood that there was now a larger group of friends, which left everyone feeling a buzz of excitement for the possibilities that might follow.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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“The hard part of a long-distance relationship is there is a component of fantasy that could creep in that clouds understanding of the relationship or what is going on,” Bobby says.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Kind of getting in the groove of things, understanding everything a lot better out there playing a lot more free, a lot more loose and looking more like myself to me,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I hope to keep making records, but I also have the understanding that I have the freedom and liberation to be able to make a record and not necessarily worry about its commercial prospects.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
But even with the powerful computer resources available to Nvidia, the software only gives a rudimentary understanding of the real world.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Lucky that she is forgiving and understanding, and that she knows how to wear down anyone’s defenses.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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