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• One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
• Ancient watchers scanned the stars for patterns, a way to make sense of the world.
  — Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The human brain seems hardwired to make sense of the world through stories.
  — Ben Rogers, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2023
• More than 100 members of the film crew were milling about, trying to make sense of the shooting.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• These readings can help make sense of the outcome, but they are not streamed.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• But the worst of it has been trying to make sense of why the bullet injured her niece and not her.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• If scientists can’t make sense of diet, what hope is there for the rest of us?
  — Tamar Haspel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• Silva, meanwhile, tried to make sense of the killing Friday.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
• That led us on this multi-year journey around the globe trying to make sense of this whole thing.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 May 2024
• Kids Are Growing Up finds Laroi beginning to make sense of bits and pieces of it all.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• Dodd has spent the last year trying to make sense of how her son could die while trying to have fun with his loved ones.
  — Carlos Suarez, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• My brain was trying to make sense of what was happening.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• But at the same time, it’s expected to make sense of everything.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• This kind of thinking helps nobody make sense of the future that’s coming.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Now there are a dozen fewer people helping make sense of the music.
  — Marc Hogan, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• Companies that are adaptable will be able to make sense of that and survive.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 July 2024
• Around her, mourners cried and embraced and prayed and signed their names on crosses in black marker and tried to make sense of it all.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• And like past seasons, pretty much everyone is stressed out and trying to make sense of the world.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
• Politely passing on a chance to help the public make sense of a story that still doesn’t add up, Ohtani bowed and slipped out of the room.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• They were stunned and struggling to make sense of the violence that claimed the life of someone whose calling was rooted in peace and love.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Lacy, who struggles to make friends her own age, tries to make sense of human connection.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• That our minds are capable of conjuring images that help us, at the end, make sense of our lives.
  — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• What are the forces that make sense of the churning sequences, and to what place does the writer of note deliver his audience?
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Like, there’s a little person inside your head who’s looking out through your eyes, trying to make sense of the world.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• But rather than returning a plain list of links, SearchGPT tries to organize and make sense of them.
  — Kylie Robison, The Verge, 25 July 2024
• And then there is the story of the system that had to make sense of all of this: how much Donovan was truly to blame and what should be done with him as a result.
  — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Yet people who become blind are able to make sense of the moving world using only sound.
  — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
• While Ruth is eager to make sense of her family’s past, Edek embarks on the trip with his own agenda.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
• Bettersten tried to make sense of her son's death by visiting the site where police said he was killed.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Police have not released a motive in the shooting, and those who know Jones have struggled to make sense of what happened.
  — Justin Jouvenal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024