understandings

plural of understanding
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as in perceptions
the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something a social observer with a deep understanding of the problems that the nation's cities face in the 21st century

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Recent Examples of understandings But there was a gap between us—our culture, our language, our understandings. Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025 The primary goal is to trace how these medical ideas were communicated through language and how that language still influences public and clinical understandings of the body today. JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025 The memo, first reported by Axios, says that Congress must specifically appropriate funds for back pay, contradicting previous understandings of the law. Nik Popli, Time, 7 Oct. 2025 On the one hand, populist movements, here and around the world, have doubled down on rigid, exclusionary understandings of national and religious identity. Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025 The smallest connections fortify the biggest understandings. Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Others include cognitive empathy (accurately understanding a patient’s situation); communication skills (asking about patients’ lives and telling them our interpretations); and altruism (mobilizing these understandings for the patient’s benefit). Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 Think of them as foundational understandings. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 The trial court also applied the new historical practices and understandings test, holding that there was no evidence of a tradition to display the Ten Commandments in public schools permanently. Lydia Artz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for understandings
Noun
  • First Brands had a web of complex debt agreements with a slew of lenders and investment funds globally.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some lease agreements might include a section stating that tenants cannot allow heat to flow out of the apartment for more than a couple of minutes or hours if the heat is on.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The activist Aralikar believes that creating opportunities for female success is the key to shifting perceptions.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For executives rallying employees around strategy or transformation, understanding these perceptions is critical.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The cap situation was tight heading into the offseason, and things got more restrictive when Trent Frederic and Evan Bouchard signed long-term pacts.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Both Mays and Corbett are on one-year pacts.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brian LaCroix, restaurant operator at Chick-fil-A, said the fast food chain will no longer be offering the military appreciations special.
    Rosanna Fraire, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The release includes interviews, outtakes and critical appreciations.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Morrissey explodes the comparatively respectable conventions of prior Frankenstein adaptations by embracing the deranged erotic and fascist implications of building and breeding new life.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • By flouting all conventions in the face of rock and roll and making a mellifluous spectacle of the music that moved through his body like a thought from God, Jarrett has become a peerless symbol of artistic purity, his talent singular, his every note sui generis.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Hurricanes needed that to happen after the game nearly slipped out of their grasps.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Halakhic rulings on divorce, medical emergencies, or conversion involve nuance that no present-day model grasps.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Understandings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understandings. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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