understandable
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It’s understandable for investors to worry about selling their chip holdings too soon, but they should think of it as “trimming” rather than getting out.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
And yet the temptation to reply is understandable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
There is understandable concern about an explosion as one of the possible outcomes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
The rush to invest in the companies benefiting from huge AI spending is understandable.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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