make (any) sense of
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: to understand (something)
We couldn't make (any) sense of the instructions.
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And in an environment where businesses are competing for every consumer dollar, businesses are turning to one another to try to make sense of how to plan for what comes next.
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Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 29 July 2025
Do this without filtering them or trying to make sense of them immediately.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
The contrast between the FDA’s clinical lens and the raw realities in the Bonafide study highlights a critical disconnect that while the government fine-tunes regulatory pathways for hormone therapy, millions of women are left trying to make sense of perimenopause on their own, with mixed results.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 22 July 2025
To make sense of this finding, Inside Climate News turned to data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Risk Index, used to identify the U.S. communities most severely threatened by natural hazards.
—Peter Aldous, Miami Herald, 20 July 2025
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Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 29 July 2025
Do this without filtering them or trying to make sense of them immediately.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
The contrast between the FDA’s clinical lens and the raw realities in the Bonafide study highlights a critical disconnect that while the government fine-tunes regulatory pathways for hormone therapy, millions of women are left trying to make sense of perimenopause on their own, with mixed results.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 22 July 2025
To make sense of this finding, Inside Climate News turned to data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Risk Index, used to identify the U.S. communities most severely threatened by natural hazards.
—Peter Aldous, Miami Herald, 20 July 2025
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