comprehended

verb

Definition of comprehendednext
past tense of comprehend
1
as in understood
to have a clear idea of the age at which children can comprehend the difference between right and wrong

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2
as in knew
to have a practical understanding of it took me a while to comprehend algebra

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3
as in included
to have as part of a whole our notion of morality should comprehend much more than proper sexual behavior

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprehended
  1. understood
  2. included
  3. contained
  4. involved
  5. recognized
  6. encompassed
  7. carried
  8. saw
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  • Some students, Adams said, may not have understood why Pepperdine had developed a shelter-in-place policy.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • And yet Bloom’s quaint, daydreamy reactions are prompted by what, in Joyce’s time, was understood to be a new and overwhelming urban modernity, a kind of attentional bombardment.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of understood
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  • The league will also work with the local government in Berlin to develop flag football talent ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles—where the sport will be included in the international competition for the first time.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The plot is alleged to have included plans to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, according to police statements.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of included
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  • The Franklin fire had extended to nearly 4,000 acres and was just 7% contained Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Several details appear to link the profile to Mangione, and a 2016 post contained a link to a page on Github, a coding website, with Mangione's full name on it.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of contained
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  • Ian Gilligan, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who has studied eyed needles but wasn’t involved in the research, tells CNN that humans would have found making needles from the bones of larger animals more difficult.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Listen to this article A tractor-trailer hauling thousands of pounds of metal beams was involved in a four-car crash on Interstate 395 in Norwich on Tuesday, leading to the beams coming loose and smashing through the cab area of the tractor-trailer, trapping the injured driver inside.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of involved
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  • Dave Knox has been recognized throughout the industry as an innovator who bridges the worlds between brand marketing, digital and entrepreneurship.
    Dave Knox, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Save for Dartmouth men’s basketball players, college athletes have not been legally recognized as employees.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of recognized
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  • Designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US and encompassed under the Taliban umbrella, the network maintains its own distinct lines of operation, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The dot-com bubble encompassed hundreds of startups and the stocks of many larger companies.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of encompassed
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  • For example, of the 2,430 Major League Baseball games played during the 2024 regular season, only 150 were carried nationally on traditional broadcast or streaming channels.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • This marks the show’s return to FOX, which carried the show from its 1990 inaugural broadcast through 2006.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of carried
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  • Over the span of several weeks, students would take shifts sawing, hauling and trucking nearly 5,000 logs from a nearby plot of land.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Nov. 2024
  • But most are satisfied with the sounds of scraping, sawing, sanding, drilling and hammering.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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