- past tense form of understand.
- past participle of understand.
understood
Example Sentences
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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
Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is known to be a tough negotiator and is understood to want more than the £105m Arsenal paid to sign midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham in 2023.
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
Duane’s eyes suddenly widened because he finally understood what “conducting experiments for the advancement of knowledge toward the benefit of all” truly meant, and he was grateful.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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