understanding

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Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“My focus was on not understanding war and hatred and bigotry,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

By understanding how cancer cells use this system differently from normal cells, scientists may be able to develop new strategies to slow or stop their spread.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

Growing up as a teenager of mixed heritage in Wrexham in the 1990s, Natalie Edwards remembers struggling to find services or understanding of how to care for her afro hair.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

He’d had such trouble understanding that when he was a little kid.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix