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comprehension

[kom-pri-hen-shuhn] / ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn ʃən /


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AI’s progress in math is now giving us a peek at a world beyond our comprehension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Intertitle cards bridged some comprehension gaps, but skilled directors used them sparingly.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

The findings suggest that important cognitive abilities, including language comprehension and prediction, may not depend on conscious awareness.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

Al-Hashimi became a polyglot — speaking English, Farsi and Armenian — in part to curb the effects of a seizure disorder on her temporal lobe, which is crucial for language comprehension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

A shadow of something passed over his face as her words seemed to sink in, and with them a comprehension she didn’t understand.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

He may also be rushing through the text and not monitoring his own comprehensions.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2021

Reed and Wooten will be tasked with improving hitters’ comprehensions of technology-driven approaches and overseeing new catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s resurgence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019

From the moment when he recognized the nail-studded door till he put down the last of his mother's letters, his comprehensions had flowed outward in widening circles.

From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

By this thou canst measure and reach the reality and know for a certainty that the difference among the sects of the world is due to the difference of comprehensions.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

In other treatises of the same philosopher, intended for the average comprehensions of men, I have been delighted with the masterly good sense, with the perspicuity of the language, and the aptness of the inductions.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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