understanding
Example Sentences
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It really shifted when marketers started understanding that they need to actually know what they’re paying for.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
For his last album, “Hardstone Psycho,” Don Toliver delivered a grungey understanding of biker culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Each new species adds to scientists' understanding of biodiversity, especially in groups like termites, which include only about 3,000 known species worldwide.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
The fox and the rat stared at each other, Clare trying to understand what was going on, Nine trying to gauge how much Clare was understanding.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.