make (any) sense of

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: to understand (something)

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But that explanation doesn’t really make sense of why Latina women shifted only very slightly in their partisan support. —

Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024 Roberts said the coroner’s job is to piece together a person’s final days to make sense of what happened. —

Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024 Answering this question would allow mathematicians to make sense of the vast and diverse world of elliptic curves, much of which remains uncharted. —

Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024 As people try to make sense of the latest swings in prediction markets and dramatic shifts in the share price in former President Donald Trump’s social media company, there’s a far simpler predictor with a surprisingly strong track record. —

Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for make (any) sense of

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