understood

Example Sentences

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Orwell’s original characters understood from the get-go where many of them end up.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Because the Fed’s most recent moves have been cuts, “additional adjustments” has been understood to imply that the next move would likely be a cut as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

About 150 people are understood to live at its base at Webb House, which was targeted by police, as well as raids on two other properties owned by Arpol.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

If the model truly understood the task, it should have consistently selected option A. Instead, Centaur continued to choose the "correct answers" from the original dataset.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

With every day that passed, they understood each other better.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver