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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. 

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Despite this, scientists still have limited understanding of how drugs distribute within tumors and what controls that process.

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This makes it important to carefully review labels and understand how much of each ingredient is being consumed.

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By building a comprehensive, accessible dataset, the initiative aims to speed up the discovery of new species and deepen global understanding of biodiversity.

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"Once we understood this, the blips in dimming stopped being weird little mysteries and became a space weather station," Bouma exclaimed.

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By identifying this previously unknown layer of interaction between gut bacteria and the immune system, the study shifts the field beyond simple associations and toward understanding cause and effect.

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