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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
apprehend .
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Examples
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Now the rogue active apprehends Echo and plans to make her like him by implanting all of her previous imprints into her brain at the same time.
12 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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While hard and soft power analyze and target the almost endless individual components of the global power game, subtle power apprehends synthetically their interactions.
David Gosset: Chinese Prudence vs. US Recklessness David Gosset 2011
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In that pivoting, in the daily rhythms of loving and being loved by one's closest companion, one occasionally apprehends -- with an unspeakable resonance -- what the Eastern Christian tradition calls "the dance" within the Trinity.
Andrew Wilkes: Appreciation For The 'Sacred Dance' Of Marriage Andrew Wilkes 2011
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Now the rogue active apprehends Echo and plans to make her like him by implanting all of her previous imprints into her brain at the same time.
Sci Fi TV Briefs – Lost Goes a Bit too Far with Time Travel; Dollhouse Wraps Up 2009
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In the daily rhythms of loving and being loved by one s closest companion, one occasionally apprehends -- with an unspeakable resonance -- what the Eastern Christian tradition calls the dance within the Trinity.
Andrew Wilkes: Appreciation For The 'Sacred Dance' Of Marriage Andrew Wilkes 2011
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In that pivoting, in the daily rhythms of loving and being loved by one's closest companion, one occasionally apprehends -- with an unspeakable resonance -- what the Eastern Christian tradition calls "the dance" within the Trinity.
Andrew Wilkes: Appreciation For The 'Sacred Dance' Of Marriage Andrew Wilkes 2011
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He knew, without thinking about it, that the Arangi had been boarded by the hazily sensed supreme disaster of life that all life intuitively apprehends and that only man knows and calls by the name of “death.”
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The legal system apprehends and prosecutes after the fact, and it frowns upon interdiction.
DHS Director Janet Napolitano: “the system worked.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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In the daily rhythms of loving and being loved by one's closest companion, one occasionally apprehends -- with an unspeakable resonance -- what the Eastern Christian tradition calls "the dance" within the Trinity.
Andrew Wilkes: Appreciation For The 'Sacred Dance' Of Marriage Andrew Wilkes 2011
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The attack-the-foreigner explanation apprehends with ease other genocides.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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