grasped

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Despite hitting the peak in taekwondo, Jones has quickly grasped the full scale of the task that lies ahead in the boxing ring.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Jackson says students clearly grasped the power of compound growth over time that he discussed in class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

They are eternally simply themselves, grasped in a minute.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Still under the influence of the propaganda she had absorbed as a child, she had not then grasped the degree of Mao’s cruelty and cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton