understood

Example Sentences

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Despite these claims, the exact way carbonated water might lower blood glucose is not well understood.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

Vaibhav Gupta, who runs a plastic utensils factory in Delhi which employs about 50 workers, said he understood the pressure workers are under as living costs rise.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The problem was that until recently, nobody realized that everything they thought they understood about baseball might be wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Those are the latest findings in a broader set of four recently published papers that contend that homelessness should be understood as more than just a chronic housing problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

And without my ever saying anything, I knew she understood all my own fears, about Papi, about the bombers that might come any day now, about the war.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo