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Examples
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Must break technology down for people to un derstand.
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Must break technology down for people to un derstand.
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"You do un - derstand!" she murmured, and he felt the wetness of tears at his neck.
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Only after the game is complete will they un - derstand that they have played their parts.
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Indeed, she had come to un - derstand a great deal more about their private life together than she had before, and in the process had learned more about sexuality than a child was normally told.
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I'm saying we should study it so that we can then un-derstand the pros and cons in case we ever needed to deploy it.
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Either they're garbling the lyrics some - thing awful, or they're singing in a language I don't un - derstand, because I can't make out the words.
Stalling 2010
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Rather I want them to understand Viennese Jewish intellectual life from the late 19th century until 1933.
"Pushing Time Away" in Vienna Hels 2008
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Rather I want them to understand Viennese Jewish intellectual life from the late 19th century until 1933.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hels 2008
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Now something else was happening here that he didn't un - derstand.
The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002
dontcry commented on the word derstand
Overstand is the opposite of Understand. derstand is what you don't understand.
January 5, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word derstand
I thought Derstand was somewhere near pianistan.
January 5, 2010
yarb commented on the word derstand
A derstand is what you mount your der on.
January 5, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word derstand
Mounted der weird me out--it always seems like their eyes are watching me.
January 5, 2010
john commented on the word derstand
Yarb, I thought a derstand is where you keep your derwear.
January 6, 2010
dontcry commented on the word derstand
*snort*
January 6, 2010
yarb commented on the word derstand
Personally, I keep my drawers in my drawers.
January 7, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word derstand
And boxers in boxes?
January 7, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word derstand
And briefs in briefcases, no doubt.
January 7, 2010