- present participle of understand.
understanding
Example Sentences
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"That pattern of disqualification with respect to state, but not federal offices provides 'persuasive evidence of a general understanding' that the States lacked enforcement power with respect to the latter."
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
She then wrote, however, that “such memory loss still may factor into the ‘rational understanding’ analysis that Panetti demands.”
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2019
“We’d go ‘peace, love and understanding’ with these hand signals when we were saying goodbye,” says Creed over the phone from his home in London.
From The Guardian • May 2, 2016
He said the company had 'a false set of understanding' of Fed requirements going into that test and has since been working constantly to improve its management.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2014
The Christian life is continual warfare, but in it all, 'the peace of God which passeth understanding' may 'garrison our hearts and minds.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
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