fail to see/understand

idiom

: to not understand

—often used when someone does not agree with something

I fail to see/understand why we need to change the current system.

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However, because of DeepSeek’s country of origin, some fail to see it as a success story. —

Mohammad Hosseini, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025 Who could fail to see a row of billionaires — including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg – invited to sit with the new president's Cabinet appointees in the Capitol at the inauguration ceremony? —

Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025 Many people are fixated on reaching end customers, and so fail to see the potential of selling indirectly through partners. —

Henry McIntosh, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 Like Odell and Kimmerer, Anderson acknowledges that many of us no longer pay attention and fail to see the gifts in front of us. —

Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fail to see/understand

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