understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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To better understand past fire activity, researchers examined charcoal preserved in peat deposits from Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
From Science Daily
It is understood the unions expect to hold talks with management - potentially next week - before it decides on its next step.
From BBC
"Space in general has always been interesting to me, something that I want to understand and need to feel like I do," Gosling says.
From BBC
I never could understand all the fuss over clothes.
From Literature
“I mean, how come this elephant was in your garden in the first place? Where were you living? I don’t understand.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
