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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

What are other ways to say understand? To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

Example Sentences

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She must understand what it means and the effect it will have — in this case, disinheriting her other legal heirs.

From MarketWatch

And with layoffs on the rise, it doesn’t necessarily take a decree for workers to understand that spending more time in the office could be a key to staying employed.

From The Wall Street Journal

But by the time we left the park, I fully understood Donnellon’s earlier assessment: I had made it out on my own two feet, and I was more than ready to lie down.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cursor’s products make knowledge workers vastly more productive because they use proprietary custom data and model to achieve what appears to be an intuitive understanding of their needs.

From Barron's

To understand those consequences, we asked pairs of interviewees—employees and their direct supervisors—about their use of generative AI tools, ranging from content creation and legal research to data analysis.

From Barron's