understand
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"He was one of the very few men; they didn't understand at the time that women's rights are society's rights," she said of her father.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
We had like this unspoken bond and trust with each other from the moment we met and it was just like, “OK, we both understand the assignment.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
"Once you understand what's happening inside the material, you can design devices to take advantage of it," Professor Qi said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Foreign Minister Winston Peters's office confirmed the ban and said he instructed the the nation's diplomats "to express concern at this departure from past practice and to better understand it."
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
She had no grandparents to ask—her father’s parents were deceased, and her mother’s had disowned them for reasons Janet didn’t fully understand.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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