understand
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Example Sentences
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The younger Belichick's understanding of football was also nurtured by his mother, Jeannette, with whom he spent many weekends watching games on TV.
From BBC
But he added: "I fundamentally understand running the schools I have done for many years, that suspensions sometimes are needed and required."
From BBC
Before Ratner learned how to make movies, he understood how to navigate the system.
"I just didn't understand what was happening to me - you feel like a child in an adult's body when parts of you are shutting down," she said.
From BBC
Instead, the bills were understood to be settled by Aluko and other Nigerian businessmen said to own energy companies that had lucrative contracts with the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation when Alison-Madueke was oil minister.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
