understand
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“We’re sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong,” Converse said in a statement to Footwear News on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Paris, she added, also believed that Berlin didn’t understand that acting at scale across Europe was the only way to deter attacks on the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The findings could help researchers better understand existing complex systems, particularly ecological networks, while also providing engineers with new strategies for designing systems from the ground up.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
He’s betting that as more people understand what’s at stake, they will keep showing up — even if they are planting trees for a future he’ll never see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Soon after Broca's announcement, a German named Carl Wernicke identifies a second area on the left temporal lobe that separately controls the ability to understand speech.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The company hopes the community understands how hard it has tried to limit the damage from this disaster, Lehmkuhl said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He cares tremendously about humanity and understands that an insolvent U.S. can’t solve our problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The incident on Saturday was not the result of hostile action, the BBC understands.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
As a mother herself, she understands the value of relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
She understands why Dr. Mann kept suggesting yoga and meditation.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Mawarire understood this because he had walked the walk.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The defection needed the group's approval and some Plaid MSs wanted assurances that Cooper-Lesadd fully understood what it meant to be a Plaid Cymru member.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
His words immediately ricocheted around the internet, as it’s generally understood that humans are the victimizers in such situations.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
But the Arizonan understood that the fight goes on, and his ideas are eternally relevant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Duane decided to take Magic’s advice, at least to the extent that he understood it.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
By understanding how Spirostomum repeatedly triggers and resets its calcium-driven contraction system, researchers hope to uncover principles that could be adapted for synthetic devices.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The hard part of a long-distance relationship is there is a component of fantasy that could creep in that clouds understanding of the relationship or what is going on,” Bobby says.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Kind of getting in the groove of things, understanding everything a lot better out there playing a lot more free, a lot more loose and looking more like myself to me,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
However, it said it had been released "without understanding of the historical context and associations".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Constance, can’t you be more understanding? I’ve business to attend to. Men’s business. And the club’s accommodations are far more suitable for that sort of thing than this ridiculous frou-frou of a house, what?”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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