as in understanding
the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something
the president's comprehension of the current situation in the Middle East
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And blacks like scraps of carbon paper This obsessive recalibration, typical of McCrae’s work, uses language to explore language’s limits, insisting that words can do no more than approximate a place beyond our comprehension: poetry as the pain scale.
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Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The big picture: The improvements come despite record-low national reading comprehension scores, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the Nation's Report Card.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
Pochettino will be pleased with the side’s effort and comprehension of his ideas.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
On average, adults correctly answer only about half of 28 questions about concepts like earnings, savings, insurance and risk comprehension, according to an annual assessment of Americans’ working financial knowledge known as the P-Fin Index.
—Ann Carrns, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The big picture: The improvements come despite record-low national reading comprehension scores, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the Nation's Report Card.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
Pochettino will be pleased with the side’s effort and comprehension of his ideas.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
On average, adults correctly answer only about half of 28 questions about concepts like earnings, savings, insurance and risk comprehension, according to an annual assessment of Americans’ working financial knowledge known as the P-Fin Index.
—Ann Carrns, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Comprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprehension. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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