understood

Example Sentences

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The way to deal with proliferators, it should be understood by now, is not to bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

A PIF delegation is due on Tyneside the week after next, as planned, while an announcement on a major capital investment is understood to be in the pipeline.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 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

Clare had not understood why the badger would be so revolted, for he had not yet seen how ugly he looked without his ear and eye.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman