understandable

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There’s a lot of anger on the show — often, the very understandable result of the situations the characters find themselves in.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Clearly, reliability is an issue, but that's understandable in their first year as a power-unit manufacturer.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

The Gulf Arab caution is in one sense understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

It’s understandable that CF’s stock surged after the start of the conflict, because the company is a “pure-play” nitrogen producer, and farmers have no option but to use nitrogen if planting corn, Rodriguez wrote.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

This is understandable, of course; he had grown up in an orphanage and naturally wished to know how he came to be there.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling