understand
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The ability to watch cells gradually become younger could be particularly valuable for scientists trying to understand the mechanisms that control biological aging.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
He longs to be the funniest guy in the room, but he is unable to understand how humor works.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The ultimate goal was to build AI and understand the mind, then use it to understand science,” Hassabis tells me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“But I didn’t understand the whole publicity machine thing. I didn’t have a publicist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“I have to get home. Surely you can understand that?”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
"Peter Rice understands talent relations, and in a competitive market, creative talent have choices of where they want to work," Sarandos said on the call Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Who understands the battlefield data and can make decisions faster, Russia or Ukraine—this side will have the biggest benefits,” says Danylo Tsvok, A1’s CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Recognizing those strengths could change how society understands aging and the contributions older adults can make.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
She wants guests to feel transported into a fantasy universe, and understands how to make that happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
From the silence, I know everyone understands what he means, too.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
But I am an apple-picking person, and my Dad was an apple-picking person, and I think he understood even then that some things are worth risking an eye for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The curfews meant many commuters could not take their regular urban rail services back home, but some late Tuesday said they understood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
What a glorious, warm and strangely pertinent observation — something Eleanor couldn’t have understood the relevance of at the time.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
His lawyer met with him alone, and his doctor later told me he understood his finances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
No one did get Twitch’s meaning exactly, but they all understood that there was now a larger group of friends, which left everyone feeling a buzz of excitement for the possibilities that might follow.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
In this one problem, Hassabis saw an opportunity to find solutions to a whole lot more, since predicting the shapes of proteins—“unbelievably exquisite things,” he calls them—held the promise of understanding diseases and curing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The charity founder said the renaming of the condition, which supporters said was "more representative" of how it affected the whole body, could help improve understanding, but there was still a "long way to go".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The street is mistaken in not understanding all of what Netflix can bring,” said Michael J. Wolf, CEO at Activate Consulting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“My understanding at the time was that the contributions associated with the event were lawful political contributions,” Winer said.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“So,” Elliot said, his brow furrowed, “if I’m understanding this right, we already fixed this.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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