understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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“I did not say I supported it. I said I understood it,” Mullin said.
"I said I understood it. There's a difference."
From Barron's
He’s understood in Ireland as a canny political operator who led his boring center-right party, Fianna Fáil, back to power after a decade in the wilderness.
From Salon
But Burnham told the BBC it was his understanding that any housing plan would now be subject to a separate planning proposal on merit and did not form part of the golf course scheme.
From BBC
"These ultra-low-density super-puff planets are rare, and they defy conventional understanding of how gas giants form. And if explaining how one formed wasn't difficult enough, this system has three!"
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
