understand
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So if “One Spoon of Chocolate” ultimately fails as a grindhouse banger, you still might understand why RZA developed this project for more than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
But if the average in this gloomy scenario is just bad, it means that investors need to understand where things will, in fact, be truly terrible.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
"If you cannot explain the causes of the Tudors' rise, or simplify the concept of photosynthesis, you don't understand it yet," he says.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Michael Klausner, a professor at Stanford Law School who studies SPACs, said a spinoff makes sense when businesses are hard to manage together or difficult for the market to understand.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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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