understood

Example Sentences

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A PIF delegation is due on Tyneside the week after next, as planned, while an announcement on a major capital investment is understood to be in the pipeline.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The way to deal with proliferators, it should be understood by now, is not to bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Despite these claims, the exact way carbonated water might lower blood glucose is not well understood.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

Those are the latest findings in a broader set of four recently published papers that contend that homelessness should be understood as more than just a chronic housing problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Clearly, she had not understood until then the magnitude of their loss.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret