make sense
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Can this help us make sense of the dementia patient’s behavior and think differently about them—to think of them, perhaps, with tenderness?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
To make sense of this theoretical point, it’s important to distinguish between stocks’ return while interest rates are rising, and their expected future returns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Giving parents money to stay home, on its face, would seem to make sense.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
All the emotions won't make sense until I get back home with the kids and then it'll be like: 'OK, I am actually still alive and living my life.'
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
That evening the Negroes in Hampton stayed in the cocoon of our segregated neighborhoods, gravitating to our churches to try to make sense of our collective tragedy.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
