Word: comprehend
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...redeem him for what he's done, what he's made. And when Amai sees through B?ll's facade to his depressed, almost somnolent state, she recognizes a shadowy reflection of kyodatsu, "the condition of despair and exhaustion" that possessed the Japanese after the war, and begins to comprehend the price he paid for victory...
...waiting for someone to translate their vital contents from Dari to English and then pass it on to someone in intelligence. Khaksar is baffled by all this. He's seen American war technology at work, rockets hitting speeding Land-Cruisers full of Taliban. So he finds it difficult to comprehend that the embassy of such a mighty nation might misplace not one but five letters. "I just don't understand it," Khaksar says. His information might be outdated or even incorrect, but as deputy interior minister of the Taliban, Khaksar's offer to collaborate should not be dismissed so lightly...
...numbers are wrenching, but to comprehend the problem, one need only watch the sordid hour-by-hour lives of girls like Lek and Tip. As we talked with them over a few days, our sense of being impartial observers gave way to a feeling of being uncomfortable voyeurs and then grew to a gnawing sense that just by watching the children's degradation we were somehow implicated. I'm not sure at what point we decided that, although we couldn't guarantee their futures, we could buy their freedom. We could help them escape...
...wanted the deal, it had to be inked before the agent left the premises. Business executives negotiate for weeks, even months, before spending that kind of money. Not Levy. By 1 a.m., the deal was sealed. "He had the brains to assess the label?s financial and creative assets, comprehend their value, put it through to his bosses - and be proved right," recalls Michael Kuhn, then a board member at PolyGram...
...events of this year were like one of those black holes astronomers are always trying to make us comprehend: a force so very large and unfathomably dark it is capable of bending space and time...