understand
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He says the way women are prioritised in the show "is such a draw" and he enjoyed watching Off Campus as it gave him an opportunity to understand better how women might be feeling.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
"And, of course, the key to solving a problem is to understand why it's gone wrong. Otherwise, you're just fumbling in the dark."
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
If my knowledge of pretending to understand this stuff serves, portfolios should be fine, as long as we don’t look.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Investors are betting big on “physical AI,” or autonomous machines that can understand and perform complex real-world tasks, as they search for new investment opportunities in a landscape where AI is disrupting many software businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
He’d never remembered that moment of kindness, for he’d been too close to death to understand what was happening.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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