understandable

Example Sentences

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It’s understandable why Apple investors are sensitive to news around the foldable iPhone.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

The public at large bought into those efforts with little skepticism in the understandable desire to have Latinos star in the American story.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The places where football players and managers are approached to sign autographs can vary from mundane and understandable to invasive and inappropriate.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The Gulf Arab caution is in one sense understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Milton no longer had any brain waves, so it was understandable why, hovering in the Cadillac, he might have forgotten that the Zebra Room had burned down long ago.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides