understandably

adverb

un·der·stand·ably ˌən-dər-ˈstan-də-blē

: as can be easily understood : for understandable reasons

is understandably nervous

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Glas said many producers understandably believed that given the gap in IEEPA tariff rates between free-trade-agreement qualifying countries in the Western Hemisphere and those in Asia — which amounted by about 10 percentage points in most cases — sourcing from the Americas should have increased. —

Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 4 May 2026 Of vastly more import and cause for concern, though, has been the conflict in the Middle East, which understandably forced the cancellation of the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia earlier this month. —

Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 4 May 2026 Some observers, like Dreier and Whitman Cobb, understandably view the transition to AI investment with some skepticism. —

Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 4 May 2026 Travelers with Spirit tickets could be understandably rattled. —

Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for understandably

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1921, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of understandably was circa 1921

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