make (any) sense of

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: to understand (something)

We couldn't make (any) sense of the instructions.

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So, to return to an earlier example, once the SEAL team mission is complete and the flow state is over, team members might make sense of that experience by still regarding themselves as individuals who, under the right conditions, can make the switch into this altered flow state. —

Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 And as the early vote count climbs, here are two charts and a map to help make sense of the numbers. —

Joe Murphy, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 Between the lines: Since raising its seed, the company has doubled down on machine learning to make sense of complicated contract data. —

Ryan Lawler, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024 Ghafoor is not the only one struggling to make sense of the possibility of using cryogenic technology in the hopes of cheating death. —

The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for make (any) sense of

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