understand
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“Until we understand the full picture, we can’t responsibly predict a timeline or outcome. What we can promise is thorough, attentive care every step of the way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Researchers hope that this timing will help them better understand the solar dynamo, the process that creates and maintains the Sun's magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The host pressed that she didn’t understand what that meant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The birds are ringed and tagged to allow conservationists to track their movements and understand their life history.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Clare sniffed around her, trying to understand why she refused to move.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Norges Bank Investment Management said Tuesday that as a long-term shareholder in both Prologis and Segro, it understands the strategic rationale for a combination and that it believes the proposal merits consideration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"Now there are rules... laws that protect us. Maybe the maramba understands that, so they do not bother us too much anymore."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Although he is very different from the power-hungry second son he plays on TV, Mitchell understands him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"He really understands the bigger, bolder measures that are needed to live up to the manifesto promises," she told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
But the truth is, Mom is never going to understand me as well as she understands Celia.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The results reveal that the relationship among the Sun, Earth, and Moon is more complicated than scientists previously understood.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
As a long-term shareholder in both companies, Norges Bank Investment Management said it understood the rationale for a combination and the proposal merited consideration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Meanwhile Blackstock remained in the Big Sky State, picking up his own dwelling, where he is understood to have been living with his partner, Brittney Marie Jones, who previously worked as an assistant to Clarkson.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Kuhn, Schiller writes, understood “the tension between the social so-called nothingness of old age and its vibrant realities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It sounded as though he barely understood how they worked.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
These systems are significantly more difficult to simulate, but they are also directly relevant to understanding real quantum materials.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
That’s good news for fund managers with understanding investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
My understanding is that you must commit a crime in order to be punished, right?
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
All human languages take place at the same pitch and frequency, which makes them sound similar to me as I translate them for my own understanding.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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