make (any) sense of

idiom

: to understand (something)

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

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Officer Phillip Dannaker arrived and tried to make sense of Sindle’s ramblings. —

Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 Witty said people in the company were struggling to make sense of the killing, as well as the vitriol and threats directed at colleagues. —

Michael R. Sisak The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024 Google today announced Gemini 2, a new version of its flagship AI model that has been trained to plan and execute tasks on a user’s computers and the web, and which can chat like a person and make sense of the physical world as a virtual butler. —

Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024 The campaign is always going to be as good as the practitioner and the marketing team can make sense of it. —

Megan Poinski, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for make (any) sense of

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