understood
adjective
un·der·stood
ˌən-dər-ˈstu̇d 
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This year's winning team of researchers has discovered that dolphin whistles could function like words — with mutually understood, context-specific meaning.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 23 May 2025
Still, the team managed to gain new insights into satellite incineration, something that is little understood and hard to study.
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Generally speaking, money is one of the few universally understood concepts worldwide.
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Yet even as software grows in importance, code becomes less visible, less tangible, less understood, and—perhaps most paradoxically—less valuable in monetary terms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2016
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Leonard David, Space.com, 23 May 2025
Still, the team managed to gain new insights into satellite incineration, something that is little understood and hard to study.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 5 May 2025
Generally speaking, money is one of the few universally understood concepts worldwide.
—Bindesh Pandey, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Yet even as software grows in importance, code becomes less visible, less tangible, less understood, and—perhaps most paradoxically—less valuable in monetary terms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2016
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understood
adjective
un·der·stood
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