understand
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"We understand that you may be scared to come forward, but we urge you to contact us," Davies said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
Some allies describe Wilson as a consensus-builder who takes time to understand an issue and is willing to change her mind based on new information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Clare sighed, knowing it was something he’d never understand.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
In Ms. Browne’s compression, the reader immediately understands how Darwin’s diverse interests came to fit together like the pieces of a puzzle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Maye understands that his performance so far simply hasn’t been up to snuff.
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
Orizondo says he understands the reticence among Cubans to see foreign investors buying up something as sensitive as the rights to arable land.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
So, Axel understands why she thinks for a little.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
She ran chiefly on her background as a renter who understood Seattle’s affordability crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
DeMaio questioned whether Weber understood what Proposition 39 proposes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is understood that ministers will try to implement the changes before the start of next year's summer holidays.
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
She was in a dark forest and called out to him, but he always woke up before he understood what she was saying.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
"This study offers a framework for understanding how different triggers can converge to cause the exact same profound clinical exhaustion."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
After understanding the phonetics of Lewis' translation, Parton recorded her parts at her studio in Nashville, in early 2025.
From BBC ● 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
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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