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- verb Present participle of to
grok .
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Examples
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His method of exploration was called 'grokking' and involved feeling things, events, ideas, people across space and time.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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His method of exploration was called 'grokking' and involved feeling things, events, ideas, people across space and time.
George Simon, 'Grokking' Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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"grokking" (and it's a good thing I have Raph Koster's book about fun handy to rip his summary out of): "It means that you understand something so thoroughly that you have become one with it and even love it."
Eurogamer 2009
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Its great to see people grokking that the NYTimes has to become a platform to survive.
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Plot-grokking sessions in which some of us would share our storybuilding problems with the others, and get suggestions for improvement.
Writing Retreats « 2009
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I rather gave up on Miéville after not really grokking his Iron Council, but I think I have changed my mind again.
February Books 10) The City & The City, by China Miéville nwhyte 2010
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Your comments are insightful and you clearly spent much more time grokking their B.S. than I had the stomach to.
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The significance I find in this grokking, are the implications if infinity actually is real.
R.W. Sanders: An Idiot And Infinite Wisdom R.W. Sanders 2011
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As for the loneliness, I'm afraid I'm incapable of grokking that because I've got Asperger syndrome, which means that I NEED some alone time on a daily basis.
mroctober: So, it's another year mroctober 2010
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The significance I find in this grokking, are the implications if infinity actually is real.
R.W. Sanders: An Idiot And Infinite Wisdom R.W. Sanders 2011
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