understand
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Writing on social media, the US president said Landry understood how "essential Greenland is to our national security" and would advance US interests.
From BBC
“I was just trying to understand why we didn’t get a play to end the game,” Goff said.
This can be a tricky thing to understand about yourself, but do you have a sense of what people see as your appeal?
Accurately tracking how that radiation moves through curved spacetime and interacts with nearby gas is essential for understanding what astronomers actually observe.
From Science Daily
As Zoe, one of the protagonists, notes early on, her interest in a particular professor’s work stems from his success in “using AI neural networks to understand biological neural networks and the processes of thinking.”
From Los Angeles Times
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