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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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I understand why you would wonder what to do with that $500,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Felix Heide, a German-born engineer and computer scientist at Princeton University who regularly returns to Munich for Oktoberfest, said he could not understand the attraction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“There are other folks out there that understand the business but they are challenged by scale,” said Stephen Sorbaro, who took over the company with his brother David from their parents in 1985.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

They could also help scientists understand how this remarkable sense, known as magnetoreception, evolved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

“La, I understand why you’re doing this. But fair warning, you’re making a difficult thing nearly impossible.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

She has said she understands the law, but chose to "stand in solidarity" with residents.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Say this for President Trump: He understands the stakes in the AI race with China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"That has to be within the control of a UK, preferably UK-owned firm, but certainly a UK firm that understands the ethics and way that the NHS works," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

But at a certain point as systems develop no one fully understands what they’re doing, their actions can’t be fully predicted, only observed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

It seems a good place to start as she understands the basis of what it is meant to accomplish.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Adams said at the start of training camp — months after the Eagles traded Brown to the New England Patriots — that he understood that was part of the business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Macron said earlier this week that he understood the anxieties and anger driving young people to protest but he condemned the violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But it is also understood that as a general rule the players' contracts are fully guaranteed, meaning they would not be required to take percentage pay cuts if they lose their top-flight status.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Vaccine hesitancy should not simply be understood as a lack of scientific knowledge among the public," Daniel Fritz Silvallana, a health communication researcher at Deakin University, Australia, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Though he understood, now, why Nine cared so much about Clare staying.

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

Roberts said Pike explained she had no real understanding of the magnitude of what was happening during the trial, but enjoyed being the centre of attention, "because she never had been".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"That starts with understanding whether the sunlight we consider 'safe' is truly risk-free at the cellular level."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

But a result that does nothing to advance human understanding, they contend, can hardly be called mathematics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Neither capable of growth nor understanding, he’s that guy with just one punchline.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Plans to send a man into space, a manned flight to the moon, weather satellites, and other very ambitious objectives, like understanding zero-gravity weightlessness, would all be part of NASA’s work.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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