understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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Because breeding success and juvenile mortality play such a critical role in population stability, the researchers emphasize the need to better understand how environmental conditions affect penguin reproduction.
From Science Daily
She was dealing with a language she did not understand, embracing a role whose meaning would only reveal itself once the camera began to roll.
From BBC
But like other bar streams, it has been subject to bans and restrictions for reasons they don't quite understand.
From BBC
The pitch baffled the Trumps, who joked they would need to go to MIT to understand it.
There has been a degree of an understanding that this side are in transition following a turbulent summer.
From BBC
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