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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

What are other ways to say understand? To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

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Educational and child psychologist Dr Sasha Hall, who's mum to a three-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, says the first thing to understand is that this scenario is "completely normal".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

You will need to get in the weeds to understand what you will pay for your medications, including running them through the drug-checker tool on Medicare.gov.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"People need to understand that...there's serious consequence for these types of things," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

I understand the logic of spending pretax IRA money first and converting money to Roth, but I’m not sure where that fits in for us.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

“I’m sorry, La. I don’t mean to keep pushing this, but I need to know with one hundred percent certainty that you understand the situation and that you will not interfere with the gold Flash.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

This made her relate more deeply to her customers, she explains, as she understands the loss of control some women feel when they lose their hair.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Morgan says it understands why the market is not yet willing to pay a higher multiple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He understands how to use his innate magnetism to charm his way through even the silliest scripts, occasionally creating a dissonance between the film and his performances that makes even the duds memorable.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Novack generally shuns them but understands it is a personal preference for those who can afford it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

When you are a person who cares for any other person, you must decide and decide again to care, she also understands.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Stupnikov understood a central paradox of his situation: The safest place for turncoats like him was in Ukraine—close to the troops and country they left behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But even while she understood it, she didn’t necessarily see its wisdom.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pharmacist Paul Irvine said he understood that women "are concerned" but urged them to speak to their GP or local chemist who could advise them about alternatives.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

These dinosaurs remain among the least understood groups of large meat eaters because their fossils are exceptionally rare.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Nothing in its movements told Torak that it had understood his question.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Sometimes our rational understanding of life and death bumps into a seemingly impossible presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

We can be fairly certain that any cooperation between the museum and the film production came with the understanding that no actual security mechanisms would even be hinted at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But the promise of greater understanding keeps us searching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The researchers say the scale of the demographic collapse has important implications for understanding intergenerational trauma, persistent disadvantage, and the development of policies that better support Indigenous communities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Autumn nods in understanding and creeps toward the television, her form as lithe as a mountain lion.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer


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