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After Russia's February 2022 invasion, he launched a research and development programme to "understand what kind of technologies we could actually deliver to the battlefront", working with his co-founder from the space-tech sector.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

The researchers wanted to understand how changes in brain chemistry control this transition.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

“What we’re trying to understand is to what extent are these shocks broadening in their effects, broadening in their impact on prices that are quite far removed from it,” Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The first minister said he hoped the investigation would be "in-depth" and "give us the answers" to understand what had happened.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

She had no grandparents to ask—her father’s parents were deceased, and her mother’s had disowned them for reasons Janet didn’t fully understand.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The 22-year-old says while he understands their anxiety, parents shouldn’t be joining their children’s job interviews or contacting employees on their behalf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

“She really relates so well to our members and understands the needs of our members and their desire for security,” Brown’s predecessor McCall said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

For me, there’s still that conversation, where he understands the most important part of the season is to come, and he understands his value with our team.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Karl Turner was suspended in March for making "uncollegiate" comments about colleagues, BBC News understands.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

In his worldview, as Farmer understands it, people turn themselves into animals for shifty reasons, or else local sorcerers turn them into animals as punishment, or simply for food.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Although the connection between statins and muscle problems has been recognized for years, scientists have not fully understood the biological processes responsible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

But maybe you could be spending a little more if you understood where your need to keep $1 million on hand comes from and how you can get past it as you age.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Still, he said, “I should have understood the pressure and power dynamic created by connecting tattoos to hiring.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The millions of devotees who take Johnson’s quest for immortality seriously may have better understood what was going on here.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

A bird fluttered down to a low branch and chirped as though he were saying something to Red, and I had the feeling she understood the bird, even though she pretended not to notice.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Katherine Carter, a former middle-school principal hired as a consultant in 2019, said there “really was not an understanding of the amount of time and support” and planning to launch a school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Whether you retain a financial adviser or not, you have presumably developed a better understanding of managing money responsibly.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

"Ultimately, our goal is to improve the physical understanding and prediction of aerosol effects on deep convection, rainfall, lightning, and climate," said Rosenfeld.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

"This moves us closer to understanding why some people decline faster than others, even when they have similar risk on paper," CPH Director Professor Simon Laws said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis