understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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“We understand this will be tremendously painful for many and we encourage our community to seek mental health support if they experience distress.”
From Los Angeles Times
Here’s how to understand the difference—and the implications.
Just a few strokes of a pen could help you better understand complicated financial concepts.
Those left in power, he said, are “generally not the sharpest people, they’re not the people who understand the subtleties of diplomacy, of what negotiating with the U.S. is like.”
From Los Angeles Times
A trip to town tired Dad more than a full day in the field, one more thing about being grown up I didn’t understand.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.