make sense

Example Sentences

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He argues that the firearms that fall under the ban - or don't - don't always make sense.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Her concurrence is too cryptic, though, to be of much use to lower courts trying to make sense of Gorsuch’s maximalist rhetoric.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Initial scrutiny from investors and the media centered on whether Kuvare somehow might be a related party, which didn’t make sense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Cellebrite just introduced an AI product that helps law enforcement officers look at the information and communications that have happened across the entire suite of applications on the phone, and make sense of those communications.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there’s a reason why it doesn’t quite make sense to us. It’s because it doesn’t quite make sense.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis