- present participle of understand.
understanding
Example Sentences
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When confronted with an undeniable fact — in this case, thousands of people booing a sitting president — the healthy human mind adjusts its understanding of reality.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
The goal is minimal, a memorandum of understanding to stop the fighting, open the strait and set up talks on more difficult issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Afterwards, he thanked Kim in a letter, saying the leaders had "made an in-depth exchange of views on the issues of mutual interest and achieved a series of important common understanding", according to KCNA.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
This will include research and monitoring of bird populations to improve understanding of the pressures they are facing.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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