understood

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Scientists have understood this effect for years, but experimentally demonstrating how to dramatically strengthen it has remained a challenge.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

"Under the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 and its July 2022 statutory guidance, a kirpan is clearly defined and understood to feature a curved blade," Singh's letter said.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

For the past two decades, their entire careers have played out in parallel, their greatness most easily understood in comparison to each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

“Within technology, semis and memory-related hardware stocks have had the best earnings revisions by far, but that is well understood by markets,” he adds.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Neither Sarah Taylor nor almost any person, except Maggie, could have possibly understood the kind of abnormality Kate Fox had lived with since she was eleven years old.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock