understand
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Example Sentences
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Until now, however, scientists did not understand how retinoic acid affects dendritic cells themselves.
From Science Daily
“There’s fuel in my body that I just want the world to understand that the Bruins didn’t come to play this year,” Chiles said.
From Los Angeles Times
From the beginning, McInnes understood that he could access a large, untapped resource that is America’s loser population.
From Salon
In addition to a main dwelling in West London, the author and her husband, screenwriter Niall Leonard, are understood to own a vacation property on the coast in Cornwall, which they purchased in 2013.
From MarketWatch
The biggest challenge will be the handover — making sure that the beneficiary understands how their $80,000 grew over the time you managed it and, critically, how they can continue along this trajectory.
From MarketWatch
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