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"Understanding" in a Sentence (21 examples)
The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."
We must sow the seeds of mutual understanding.
Mutual understanding is essential.
Nobody contributed to the understanding of dreams as much as Freud.
I think that is based on a lack of mutual understanding.
The problem is beyond the scope of my understanding.
I'm afraid the book is beyond the reach of his understanding.
The explanation was beyond my understanding.
The child was incapable of understanding his father's death.
Understanding this book is beyond my capacity.
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There are certain things that defy human understanding.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
She has a solid understanding of particle physics.
It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
There is a multitude of theisms, many understandings of God, even within the same religious tradition.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
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