Word: comprehend
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...Qaeda's communication channel with the Arab media to announce himself as the movement's new spokesman, warned in an email that al-Qaeda had "carried out changes in its leadership and sidelined the September 11, 2001 team," and that it would take the U.S. a long time to comprehend the movement's new form. That could simply be bravado in the face of damaging blows by its enemies, but analysts have long warned that al-Qaeda is almost certain to have changed its modus operandi under the weight of sustained U.S. assault...
...Saddam loyalists the general reply is, "We have to trust that they know who their enemies are." Still, their enemies might not be the enemies of the United States or even the people of An Najaf. Almost a week after the city has been liberated it is hard to comprehend that U.S. Special Forces would condone and maybe even assist in techniques of blind justice when even they admit they do not know much of the history of the people being targeted...
...Green’s sixth goal was almost impossible to comprehend. With barely a minute remaining in the second period, Big Green freshman and 2002 Canadian Olympic gold medalist Cherie Piper blew by Ruggiero, broke in on goal and scored. Nothing like that had happened all season...
...matter what conclusions we might reach, if we want to comprehend the shape and substance of German dreams during the early post-war years, we can find no better resource,” he writes...
...school attendance jumped 50%, to 900 students, in just four months. Churches of every denomination and size are trying these new approaches and experiencing similar surges in attendance. "The more [kids] touch and they hear and they feel, the more likely the content becomes not only interesting, but they comprehend and understand," says Charlotte Echols, executive director for the child-development program at Highland Park Methodist United Church in Dallas. "That transforms into the good feeling that brings them back next week...