understood

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“It’s a very easily understood business whereas Goop is very intertwined and shared services,” she said, but it’s not something she’s currently pursuing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Vaibhav Gupta, who runs a plastic utensils factory in Delhi which employs about 50 workers, said he understood the pressure workers are under as living costs rise.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Even so, scientists have not fully understood how these different stresses combine to impair HSC function.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

Those are the latest findings in a broader set of four recently published papers that contend that homelessness should be understood as more than just a chronic housing problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Watching them, I understood what I’d spent so much time trying to ignore: being alone was better than being with people who didn’t care if I existed.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows