understand
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Unlike AI, we understand ourselves through our relations with one another and, crucially, through our embodied experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
"We will do what we need to do. And we expect our friends to understand us," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
The team is now working with theorists to better understand exactly how "quantum" these newly created states are.
From Science Daily • Jun. 15, 2026
I don’t understand how that can be, but as I get older, I’m simply trying to find out the truth.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 15, 2026
Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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