understand
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"These plans have been formed following engagement with community leaders to best understand local concerns and to ensure that the Jewish community that enjoy this special period without fear of harm," they said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Researchers are also conducting microbiological analyses to understand what happens to bacteria inside periodontal pockets during treatment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
With this, scientists hope to better understand dark matter and dark energy, which are invisible but make up 95% of the universe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Nepal’s government has said the nature of the disaster took time to understand, catching both countries by surprise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Katrien and Annaliese could not understand any more than I could Peter’s deliberately doing something that would attract the attention of the authorities.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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BBC News NI understands the man who died was from Guinea-Bissau, but had lived in Northern Ireland for more than two decades.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
An otherwise chipper cartoonist likened her audience to a “chamber of despair” that nobody else understands.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“He’s cautious about how he reacts. … He doesn’t want people getting ideas on whether something is good or bad because he understands others have better product sense.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Gudrún Geirsdóttir, a professor of higher education at the University of Iceland, said she understands the concerns of the fishing and agriculture industries but believes Iceland would benefit from exploring EU membership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Good," says Helmuth, but he understands Karl's fear.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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It is understood that work has also begun to create more cells in existing prisons by adapting space used for other purposes, but that is also expected to take months.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
This speed-up could have been caused by ocean conditions, the effect of which is not yet well understood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
What to do about it is well understood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“She did something so economically irrational and inexplicable that it would make no sense other than when understood in the context of defendants’ scheme,” the filing stated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
For a long time, when he was smaller, he hadn't understood about the No Candy line.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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Accurately identifying species and understanding where they live are essential for measuring biodiversity and protecting it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Scientists hope Roman’s observations, paired with other cutting-edge space and ground-based telescopes, will help settle whether dark energy is constant, or if the recent measurements point to deeper problems in our understanding of the universe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The new Nancy Grace Roman telescope is similarly expected to revolutionise our understanding of the Universe, including through investigating dark energy.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Try to approach him from a place of gratitude and mutual understanding, rather than conflict.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Jason thought of the Elders at Sandy June’s and the love they freely gave him, about how understanding they’d been, and how they reminded him of his grandma.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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