understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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“If you understand businesses, you understand common stocks.”
"With the fireworks, we didn't understand what was going on at first. Then we saw the smoke. It's terrible, a lot of young people go to that bar."
From Barron's
In order to understand the lives of the female characters, O'Farrell said the research was "more hands on".
From BBC
"We now have all these new molecular targets and a better understanding of what is underlying the biology, which could give us new angles to improve outcomes for patients," Shalek says.
From Science Daily
"With potentially 70 percent of the adult population now considered to have excess fat, we need to better understand what treatment approaches to prioritize."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
