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

Although scientists have long understood the basics of this process, studying its detailed structure at the nanometer scale inside intact human cells has remained challenging.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

But he hadn’t understood how strange it would be, how it would set every nerve in his body on edge and make him question all sorts of basic tenets about how the world worked.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix