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understand

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UK /ˌʌndəˈstænd/US /ˌʌndərˈstænd/
verb

to know or realize the meaning of words, a language, what somebody says, etc.

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And so you have to understand that I have a bachelor's and a master's in social work, and I was getting my Ph.D.

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